non-random ramble

this utility allows you to execute the same command on multiple NIX servers via ssh terminals.
Original article is at http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9365/sam0405g/0405g.htm

Installing Fanout

Fanout and fanterm are shell scripts and require no compiling or other building. Simply download the tarball from stearns.org (or one of its mirrors), extract it, and put the relevant scripts in one of the local bin directories in your PATH. The current version as of this writing is 0.6.1. The installation is as simple as the following (putting the relevant files in /opt/adm/bin):

[jd@dace] $ cd /tmp
[jd@dace] $ wget http://www.stearns.org/fanout/fanout-0.6.1.tar.gz
[download output]
[jd@dace] $ gzip -c fanout-0.6.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
[jd@dace] $ cd fanout-0.6.1
[jd@dace] $ cp fanout fanterm fanmux fanmux.sh /opt/adm/bin

There are also README, INSTALL, and other documentation files provided with fanout, which you should read and understand before proceeding.

Gives you CTRL+J to jump to the test case.

This is the automatic download url, however it doesnt want to be configured with ganymede which means its not much use!

http://moreunit.sourceforge.net/org.moreunit.updatesite/

I was just watching John Snows’ documentary about America which is on CH4.

He was interviewing Vinod Khosla who was talking about investing in the future. He said that he nevers invests in things that are going to succeed and then this:

“The willingess to fail gives me the power to succeed”

This is a great quote, especially relevant to Agile software development philosophy.

So there is no GOTO in java, although I believe it is a reserved keyword.

However, you can do this …

    while ( ... ) {
         level1:
         for ( ... ) {
              for( ... ) {
                   break level1;
              }
         }
    }

It allows you to break out of a set of nested loops back to whichever level you like.

After going through the pain of trying to install Mono manually, it is now available for download from

http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

It includes cocoa-sharp but my version didnt seem to run very well - i can compile against it but nothing appeared when i ran the app.

There is a tutorial here: