I recently needed to examine a number of XML files and print out the element names that contained text greater than X number of characters. In addition I also need to print the location of that element within the XML document. i.e. given the following document …if I was interested in book titles that had […]
Whilst setting up a Elixir development environment I ran into a interesting problem. I created a new .bat file in Windows 10 to start up Elixir’s Interactive Shell. The command I wanted to run was: iex –werl So I created a new Windows .bat file called iex.bat which contained this single command. Unfortunately when I double […]
Watching Joel Spolsky’s masterful presentation You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky will make you better at using Excel. You don’t have to watch it all , watch the first 5 minutes about how to correctly paste in Excel will improve your productivity whilst reducing your #REF! error stress levels and will put you head and shoulders above […]
Whilst attending the UKOUG Tech16 conference, several of the talks I attended mentioned the use of JSON (or to give it’s full name JavaScript Object Notation) These talks made me realise how little I actually knew about this Data Interchange Format. There are many resources for learning JSON, from websites of varying quality to […]
I have always enjoyed reading books about Programming. From books that lead you to take your first tentative steps with a new language to ones that take you on a deep dive into the world of particular feature. I especially enjoy ones that discuss language agnostic programming concepts such as debugging, estimating etc. Books like […]
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