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  1. (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.

  2. Context: replace spaces by dashes in a script-generated HTML file's links

    1awk -F\' 'm = /a href/ { gsub(/ /,'-',$2); print$1'\''$2'\''$3} !m {print $0}'
    
  3. Pro: no need to setup a DNS server to test virtualhosts Con: keep in mind that all "fake" hosts will point to 127.0.0.1!

    1. Use /etc/hosts to declare test hosts / domains / subdomains
    #<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
    127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
    127.0.0.1	host.localdomain	host
    127.0.0.1	sub.host.localdomain	sub.host
    ::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost
    
    1. Allow per-user virtualhost definition in either (depending on your distro)
    • /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
    • /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    Include /home/albert/.httpd/*.conf

    1. Profit! Create virtualhosts with local hostnames :)
  4. Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)

    I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:

    • writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
    • parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
    • complete feature set!
      • we don't want to just run tests...
      • coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
      • output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)

    There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:

    • stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
    • nosetests
    • py.test

    And 2 ways of gettings things done:

    • keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
    • using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)

    Some links:

  5. Supported Games: Half-Life 2 (required) Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Half-Life 2: Episode One Half-Life 2: Episode Two Calamity City 7: Toronto Conflict Dangerous World MINERVA: Metastasis Offshore Riot Act Rock 24