Monthly Archives: May 2010

Dissertation is over…

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog about this ages ago!  Better late than never I suppose… Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project.  I wanted … Continue reading →

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Changes to the site

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Ben Lavery

So, over the last week and last night I have been working on a script to automagically generate galleries, not that that is finished I have a brand new gallery up and running. I have also created a breadcrumb script, … Continue reading →

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Sun VirtualBox becomes Oracle VirtualBox and grows into version 3.2

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ben Lavery

So Oracle had Sun for a fair while now, all of the sites have been rebranded, and finally, as of Tuesday, the stable release of VirtualBox was also rebranded.

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Robust Bash Scripts – Part Four

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Ben Lavery

This is part of a series of posts which should aid anyone writing Bash scripts to make them more robust. This post describes how you can use traps to help your code fail more gracefully.

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Robust Bash Scripts – Part Three

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Ben Lavery

This is part of a series of posts which should aid anyone writing Bash scripts to make them more robust. This post offers some advice on how to Bash script defensively.

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Robust Bash Scripts – Part Two

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Ben Lavery

This is part of a series of posts which should aid anyone writing Bash scripts to make them more robust. This post shows you how to use Bash’s built-in error checking.

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Robust Bash Scripts – Part One

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Ben Lavery

This is part of a series of posts which should aid anyone writing Bash scripts to make them more robust. This post shows you how you can guard against unset variables.

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May the Fourth be with you!

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Happy Star Wars day everybody!  May the Fourth be with you!

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