Listing files with absolute paths
03:05 PM on Wednesday 21 August 2013
In some cases, there is a need to list files with absolute paths rather than just the filename as done by ls. This can be done using the following command: find -iname '*.txt' This solution uses find to search for files within the directory provided by pwd which is the current directory. This crea ...
Why me
12:54 PM on Saturday 17 August 2013
Using awk to filter lines on column values
10:28 AM on Thursday 15 August 2013
You can use the following awk snippet to filter the lines of a text file by a certain condition: The above snippet prints out the line in the text file is the first column has a numeric value greater than one. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8734351/using-awk-to-filter-out-column-with-numeri ...
The family having yogurt cones
07:25 PM on Sunday 11 August 2013
Esther, Ernest and myself having yogurt cones at Andersen's.
Air purifier
07:40 PM on Monday 05 August 2013
Ernest's allergies are acting up again. So I thought to buy the Sharp air purifiers to be placed in his room to help his allergies. We got a Sharp FU-A28E which has a HEPA filter and an ionizer for the kids room and a small car ioniser G-DC2E for the car. The room unit seems to be rather quiet at it ...
Kids acting cute
08:32 AM on Sunday 04 August 2013
Ever got one of these faces from the kids when they want something?
Recursive queries
03:59 PM on Friday 02 August 2013
I have always been amazed by Oracle's connect by query construct which enables recursive queries. I use quite a bit of graphs in my work and representing and using them with a database has been less than ideal. I just realized that PostgreSQL and SQL Server are also able to do this using Common Tabl ...
Beards and programming languages
07:22 AM on Tuesday 30 July 2013
Who would have thought that the key to the popularity of a language is the size of the founders' beards. I typically thinks about ease of expression and the ability to perform powerful tasks with concise syntax but it appears that great beards are the key to a popular language. Check out the article ...
Vegetarian chicken rice
08:37 PM on Sunday 21 July 2013
Had a vegetarian chicken rice for breakfast today and it was rather good. The rice had the taste of real chicken rice and the mock chicken is rather good. Not bad for $2.50 at the Bedok central hawker centre.
Clouds
08:22 PM on Sunday 14 July 2013
Saw some beautiful clouds from the lift lobby and decided to do some HDR on it. The following is the result.