So I was looking at my Vibram FiveFingers Bikila LS shoes and noticed that they started to wear a fair bit on the soles. I then got curious as to how many miles I had put on them. I also have a Garmin Forerunner 305 that I wear on every run, so I figured this [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2012 by herbcso
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So for the longest time I was always bothered by the fact that I couldn’t grep for files of a particular name that were buried several levels deep. For example, if you wanted to do grep -r nifty.java.property *.properties , then unless you had a *.properties file in your current directory, grep would assume that [...]

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by herbcso
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So I wanted to look up a Big Bang Theory episode yesterday and I noticed that Google found quite a number of pages referencing it. As a result, I got curious how many results each of the episodes would return. A few lines of Perl code later, here is the result. (click the image to [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2009 by herbcso
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