I think it’s a safe bet to say that anyone who has been in software testing or programming for any length of time has had to create a regular expression (RE). Most of the RE’s that I create are simple and I can do them quickly. However, this past week I had need [...]

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I need some help on this and would appreciate your comments. I need to set up a project hosting web site on my corporate intranet. It needs to be something kind of like SourceForge or ShareSource.  I actually like the ShareSource interface, but the code is not available.
There are getting to be several [...]

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I am a huge fan of model based testing, but unfortunately have not had much opportunity to implement it. Even so, I try to keep up with the trends. Here is a Google video about model based testing. Enjoy.

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If you are a SOAP fan then you may want to stop reading now.  Seriously, I am not interested in a philosophical debate on the “merits” of SOAP.  Personally, I think SOAP is a horrible way for distributed resources to communicate.  The idea of SOAP being XML and hence partially readable is OK, but for [...]

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I found this TCL call graph generator today. I find that call graph generators are useful for static debugging and tracing of program flow.
http://www.fincher.org/tips/Languages/tcltk.shtml
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My normal operating system of choice is Ubuntu Linux which has a nice little frequency scaling applet. Normally I leave the frequency switching scheme set to “On Demand” which will alter the speed according to the load. Sometimes, when I really need to save on power I will set the scheme to lowest [...]

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I love working in Linux and find that I am far more productive than when I work in Windows. One of the many things I love is the ability to have multiple desktops; something I have missed on Windows.
I found VirtuaWin - Virtual Desktops for Windows that allows me to do the same thing [...]

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There are many browser plugins that will manage your passwords and generate random passwords for you. These are great if you have just one computer that you use. For me, I have a Linux computer at work, a laptop for work, and a home computer. There are some sites that I want [...]

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As a follow up to a previous post, here is how to unmount an ISO image in Solaris. In Linux mounting and unmounting ISO images is a one step process, not two like in Solaris.
Unmount the image:
umount /mount/point
Delete the block device:
lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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The following command will show the amount of installed RAM in a Sun Solaris machine.
/usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory

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