Brain Goo

One of my more popular posts is How to Push a Hash on to an Array in PERL, but how do you push a dict on to a list in Python? Lists are one-dimensional arrays and dicts are associative arrays or hash arrays.  This means we can do the same thing we do in other [...]

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Before we get started, if you have a personal calendar, Google has a quick how-to here. The Google tutorial only covers basic calendars.  This tutorial will cover both personal and shared calendars. Google Calendar is neat and pretty much every phone and app has some sync system that works with it… except Thunderbird with the [...]

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I get this a lot from friends and Google is full of examples, but here it is again. If you have a file that begins with a hyphen (one of these: -) you’ll have a tough time removing it unless you remember something simple from Command Line 101. In most CLI environments, your shell has [...]

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