The Tooth of Knowledge (Lyrics)

This song is at least as old as 1973 and is originally from Italy (Giorgio Gaber - Dente della conoscenza). If you like finding patterns, making analogies and metaphors, and overall pondering, then examine the tooth of knowledge in the contexts of: science, religion, culture, society (etiquette, etc), and finally, the internet.   (note : 'SHHH' is an inhaling sound) ‘TICK’ and then ‘SHHH’, ‘TICK’ and then ‘SHHH’, ‘TICK’ and then ‘SHHH’, ‘TICK’ and then ‘SHHH’, ‘TICK’ and then ‘SHHH’.

Ruby: What is at_exit and how to write tests for it.

Ruby has a neat feature called at_exit which takes a block and then executes the contents of this block when the program ends. There are a couple of VERY important details: <ol> <li>It takes a block and converts it into a Proc object at the time of parsing. This means that the data has to be available in the binding, or you'll run into errors. Example: instance variables need to be set before you can use them in that block.

Art of Agile Planning / Art of Agile Delivery, by James Shore and Diana Larsen

The Art of Agile Planning (#aoap on Twitter, and AOAP from now on) is a 2-day course. The focus is on understanding the higher-level constructs of Agile and how they imbricate. In the course, one learns how the ideal Agile team is composed (hint: it's cross-functional and co-located) and what practices and techniques will be used to organize at all levels, from the developers' standup to the customers' research for the next best value-delivering feature, including how to properly create a feature that developers can work on and how to best break it down into stories (and then into tasks).

Society's focus on knowledge

Here is a thought with which I've been wrestling for quite a while - the focus of society on knowledge and what it could be doing to us as people, human beings, and members of society, as well as to society itself. <h4><strong>Knowledge is power</strong><em> - knowing more can only help you</em></h4> In the West (bounded to the east by Russia and to the west by the Americas), the focus has historically been on developing more knowledge, more science.

Grepping a single file for 'dynamic' content

You can use xargs to grep the same word through different files. But how do you use xargs to grep different words through the same file? Like this: echo "your fancy word finder stuff here" | xargs -i bash -c 'grep -n "{}" your/file/here Not something that's useful every day, but when you want it, hot damn is it nice to have.