October 2008 – zeusville

John McCain vs. John McCain

nuff said, I could’ve voted for the McCain of 2000, but not the version we’re seeing in 2008.

October 30, 2008October 30, 2008 by jmrodri

Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama for President

October 20, 2008 by jmrodri

Palin as President game

Click around the Oval Office to see and hear what it would be like with Palin as president.

http://www.palinaspresident.com/

October 16, 2008 by jmrodri

Debate

Watching the debate is painful. The baseball game is more interesting, even if the Dodgers who I want to win, are losing 5-0 to the Phillies. 🙂

McCain’s facial expressions are very awkward.

October 15, 2008 by jmrodri

National Debt part 2

Ok here’s a different graph: National debt as a percentage of gdp:
national debt as percent of gdp

October 15, 2008 by jmrodri

National Debt

So much for “fiscal conservatives”. I hear folks (usually Republicans) talk about how Democrats like to raise taxes. Well look at the national debt graph, and you can see why!

national debt

October 15, 2008October 15, 2008 by jmrodri

vij

I’ve been using a bash function for launching vim for quite a while. I can do things like vij edit.jsp and it would find the edit.jsp and launch vim. The original version looked like this:

vij ()
{
find . -name "$1" -exec vim {} \;
}

The problem would occur when there were more than one file named edit.jsp. Running find . -name edit.jsp yielded four files:

find . -name edit.jsp
./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/activationkeys/edit.jsp
./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/errata/edit.jsp
./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/channel/manage/edit.jsp
./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/systems/probes/edit.jsp

vij would exec vim for each of the files found. This is not what I wanted, I only wanted to edit the third one. So with a little hacking I updated it to prompt me if it found more than one, so I could choose the one I wanted.

vij edit.jsp

Multiple matches found...
1: ./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/activationkeys/edit.jsp
2: ./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/errata/edit.jsp
3: ./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/kickstart/wizard/profile/advanced/edit.jsp
4: ./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/channel/manage/edit.jsp
5: ./code/webapp/WEB-INF/pages/systems/probes/edit.jsp
q: Quit

?

Simply add this to your $HOME/.bashrc and you’ll be all set.

vij ()
{
    dafiles=$(find . -type f -name "$1")
    matches=$(echo $dafiles | gawk '{print NF}')

    case "$matches" in
        0)
           echo "No matches found"
           show=""
           ;;
        1)
           show=$dafiles
           ;;
        *)
           echo
           echo "Multiple matches found..."
           i=1
           for option in $dafiles
           do
              echo "$i: $option"
              i=`expr $i + 1`
           done
           echo "q: Quit"
           echo
           read -p "? " ans
           if [ "q" == "$ans" ]; then
              show=""
           else
              show=$(echo $dafiles | gawk '{print $"'"$ans"'"}')
           fi
           ;;
    esac

    if [ "" != "$show" ]; then
       vim $show
    fi
}

October 10, 2008October 8, 2010 by jmrodri