Here is a list of very good books that you might want to read if you are a programmer, or intend to become one. They will teach you many things about general reasoning, testing, command line utilities , management and more.
I have used loops in tests many times. Sometimes for iterating through an array of inputs, sometimes an array of tuples with an input and the expected output. It is a very convenient and dry way to code a test when you want to test against a lot of cases. But there is a problem with this approach.
While trying to learn Elm, I came across a few concepts that were not easy to grasp. Especially when it comes to types and the syntax. I struggled with the difference between type and type alias. I struggled with understanding what was going on in a type declaration. I also struggled with the many different things that are written in module-case and separate them. We will try to answer all these questions here.
We will see how to convert a folder of images to make them safe for web using the Mac OSX command line tool Sips. First in a shell script and then an Applescript version if you want to share this functionality with less technical users.
The flasher function is just a small command which flashes your screen until you press any key. It is usually put at the end of a long running process in order to indicate that the job is finished.
If you are on OSX and use Mail.app, but work a lot in the command line and would like a simple command to print a summary of unread emails, then this post is for you.
