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Monday February 16, 2009

A bitty week

Last week was a pretty bitty week, dominated by the need to complete some mandatory, examined web training. I have recently completed similar training in Sun's Unified Storage Products which I found useful. This one is not so focused on technology and while useful in that I learned a couple of things, I really wonder if it was a good use of my time.

Prior to getting stuck in, I made some progress on my web estate including Laconica, planet and glassfish. I got a copy of mingle running on one of my Linux images but made no progress on installing Glassfish. I have taken advice and been recommended to use the Sun installer, but I am being stubborn and want to see if I can use the Ubuntu package installer.

Mind you I got fed up with bash & sh and installed the Korn Shell. I was able to use the package manager which is cool. I was expecting that some Linux religous view, or over zealous conformance with the various licenes would prohibit its inclusion, but it works fine. Since I shall only be using it for scripts, I don't need to write a global .kshrc and install it where ever it would need to be. What broke the Camel's back? I felt I needed $(). I had been lectured by Chris Gerhard about using this syntax a while ago because it supports nesting and finally came across a case where it was needed, or at least, coding speed and my skills meant that I decided to move over to it. (It does mean that anything I write may be harder for other Linux users to adopt.) So I'll write in ksh, and port to sh.

I ended the week on Sunday at the Chichester Smith and Western, where the atmosphere, decor and music are fun and the portions enormous.

tags: technology ubuntu linux ksh shell scripting

(2009-02-16 10:41:12.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

You had to do that mandatory waste-of-time training, too? Jeez.

If I'd have known, I'd have sent you the same Q&A cheat sheets I was given (and which are in wide internal circulation) so you'd only have had to waste a couple of hours' time clicking buttons.

Sorry, I didn't know.

btw, I agree that the Amber Road training was worthwhile, and I did it properly. However, regarding the other stuff, I don't consider it cheating, if the original mandate is unreasonable.

Posted by Dave Walker on February 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM PST #