Single Point of Failure

Tools, tools and more tools

Ξ April 5th, 2009 | → 0 Comments |
∇ Tools | ∇ Command, Development, Tools |

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The other day I exchanged a couple emails with two friends (him and him) about development tools. That made me think about those other development tools that end-up being use once every two or three months:

• valgrind suite is composed of some awesome tool, the ones that I use more are memcheck and callgrind,
• ldd is very useful to understand what library you are missing
• xmllint is perfect to do simple XML validations against XSD or DTD
• tidy is useful to beatify that XML contents that after manual edition tend to get misaligned
• vimdiff created a dual-panel diff (similar to tkdiff) in a vim environment
• cut select a range of characters per line (i.e. a column) for a specified file

Some of these and many more where found on a very interesting site (which I use regularly) called Command-line-fu.

Satisfaction

Ξ April 5th, 2009 | → 0 Comments |
∇ Complaints, Work | ∇ Letter, Ponderation, Satisfaction |

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My last post here was almost three weeks ago. Since that last post, things didn’t went along as expected. Career meetings were help during the last week of April, and the results were not as I expected. For the first time since joining the company, I felt that I had to do something…

The first thing I did was not to explode! I decided to “count to 10″ and think through my possible actions. The next step was start writing a letter explaining with my satisfaction regarding my job and future prospects had dropped so low. A two page letter has sent on last Friday to my boss… His way of approaching the issue was the expected calling to a private talk. I was congratulated for my “very professional attitude” and some actions were agreed to try mitigate the current dissatisfaction.

I’ll be watching the results of such actions and if in three months there’s still nothing to be seen… I’ll have to sit down again and think about my options.