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	<title>non-random ramble</title>
	<link>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random</link>
	<description>"a psychically conditioned relativity of time and space"</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Edit GMail messages using Vim</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/459575176/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/11/20/edit-gmail-messages-using-vim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>sysadmin</category>
	<category>bash</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, why would you want to do this ?
Because you can.
1) Install this add-on which allows you to edit text areas in firefox using an external editor:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
2) Install VIM
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim72.exe
3) Setup the plugin to use vim (addOns->its all text addon->options)
4) make sure gmail is using &#8220;plain text&#8221; as editing - otherwise its not a text area, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigate Backwards and forwards in Visual Studio</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/456142108/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/11/17/navigate-backwards-and-forwards-in-visual-studio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>ides</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should have been obvious but it took me about 15mins of googling to find. Which is funny as the menu items seem to be quite obviously on display under the &#8220;View&#8221; menu! 
Anyway in Eclipse you do CTRL+LEFT_ARROW, CTRL+RIGHT_ARROW which is particularly useful if you have just jumped to the declaration of a method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read in a list of files and loop over them in bash</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/446439449/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/11/08/read-in-a-list-of-files-and-loop-over-them-in-bash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>sysadmin</category>
	<category>bash</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Needed to do this and after a bit of looking around (Bash scripting) came up with this:



#!/bin/bash

FILE_LIST_SOURCE=listoffiles.txt
DEFAULT_FILE=&#34;some.default.file&#34;

[ -f $FILE_LIST_SOURCE ] &#038;&#038; LIST_OF_FILES=$(cat $FILE_LIST_SOURCE)

LIST_OF_FILES=${LIST_OF_FILES:-$DEFAULT_FILE}

#echo -e &#34;\nLIST_OF_FILES:\n$LIST_OF_FILES&#34;

echo &#34;List of files:&#34;
for i in $LIST_OF_FILES; do
    echo $i
done




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		<title>Fanout</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/437865620/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/31/fanout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>sysadmin</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/31/fanout/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Unit</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/437372671/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/30/more-unit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>ides</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/30/more-unit/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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/

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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/432853533/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/26/quote-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>agile</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just watching John Snows&#8217; 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:
&#8220;The willingess to fail gives me the power to succeed&#8221; 
This is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goto in Java</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/427378950/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/21/goto-in-java/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>code</category>
	<category>java</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/21/goto-in-java/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So there is no GOTO in java, although I believe it is a reserved keyword.
However, you can do this &#8230;


    while ( ... ) {
         level1:
         for ( ... ) {
      [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mono 2 now available as a download for OS X</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/426421154/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/20/mono-2-now-available-as-a-download-for-os-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>thoughtblog</category>
	<category>c#</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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:
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		<title>Show hidden files for OS X</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/426269187/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/20/show-hidden-files-for-os-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>os x</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    
    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

    killall Finder
    

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		<title>Install of mono 2.0 failed on OS X PowerBook G4</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jimbarritt/~3/422866834/</link>
		<comments>http://jimbarritt.com/non-random/2008/10/16/install-of-mono-20-failed-on-os-x-powerbook-g4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Barritt</dc:creator>
		
	<category>code</category>
	<category>os x</category>
	<category>thoughtworks</category>
	<category>thoughtblog</category>
	<category>c#</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just tried to install mono version 2 from darwin ports.
Before starting i uninstalled the mono i had already:


#!/bin/sh -x
#This script removes Mono from an OS X System.  It must be run as root
rm -r /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework
rm -r /Library/Receipts/MonoFramework-SVN.pkg
cd /usr/bin
for i in `ls -al &#124; grep Mono &#124; awk '{print $9}'`; do
rm ${i}
done


First i could [...]]]></description>
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