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title: "And another thing: on UNIX-y development"
date: 2002-02-18T20:16:39-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/02/18/oooobb/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [Header]
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# And another thing: on UNIX-y development

It's worth noting that I'm trying a change in approach now to get my hacking morale up.  I'm adopting a more UNIX-y approach and planning to write and release a number of smaller, interoperating utilities at first.  They should be really easy to pipe together, like cat | grep | more.  They should, at first, run just fine on my laptop Apache installation or out on the 0xDECAFBAD servers.  Eventually I might write the overarching <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/DesktopWebAppServer">DesktopWebAppServer</a> that provides another shell within which they can reside, but I have to get away from my year-long hermitage arcs of development where I make really cool things and get 75% of the way done and then abandon them.
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Okay.  Nevermind work, it's time to go home.  Wheee!
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<i>(Grr, and <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/TextRouter?topicparent=Main.FilterData"><b>?</b></a><font color="#0000FF">TextRouter</font></span> keeps "helpfully" escaping all my HTML tags with entities.  Have to do more digging to work out how to stop that.)</i>
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