Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
Videos
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Assortment of videos.
Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers.
- Robert Hummel
Parsing Script Command Line Arguments
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 by digitalpeer
An easy way to parse command line options with or without values in a Bash or variant script file.
for i in $*
do
case $i in
--prefix=*)
PREFIX=`echo $i | sed 's/[-a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'`
;;
--searchpath=*)
SEARCHPATH=`echo $i | sed 's/[-a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'`
;;
--lib=*)
DIR=`echo $i | sed 's/[-a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'`
;;
--default)
DEFAULT=YES
;;
*)
# unknown option
;;
esac
done