Learnings Week 22 2011

This past week, despite moving apartments across Berkeley on Wednesday, I managed to learn some interesting things here and there.

The GNU/diff utility can display full side-by-side diffs with the use of the -y flag. In conjunction with colordiff (e.g. diff -y file.c file.c.orig | colordiff) this can provide pretty helpful, console-based, side-by-side comparisons
oprofile is both useful and a pain in the ass, at the same time
Sasparalla, the drink, is very similar to root beer. Sasparilla the plant, is a trailing vine native to central america. I always thought The Stranger character in The Big Lebowski was ordering some kind of liquor, not a root beer.
In Jenkins, using a combinations of promoted builds, “keep build forever” and build descriptions is a great way to denote: which build is ready to be deployed (promoted builds) and which builds have been deployed (keep forever, edit description).
The authentic German bakery ”Octoberfeast” in downtown Berkeley sells loafs of bread, but no brötchen. The hunt continues.

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