A script to bump the version number in a pom.xml file.
#!/bin/bash
# A script to bump the version number inside a pom.xml file
#
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo ""
echo "Bump version script for incrementing the version number in a project's pom.xml file."
echo ""
echo "Usage: bump-version 'version-string'"
echo ""
echo ""
exit
fi
VER=$1
echo $VER
# enure we have a value
CMD="mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$VER"
echo "Executing:"
echo $CMD
mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=$VER
echo "done"
Here is a script that was created to diff the configurations between two Heroku apps. This came about when configuring and testing a development and a production Heroku system. In this case you want to know how they differ.
#!/bin/bash
APP1=$1
APP2=$2
CMD="diff <(heroku config --app $APP1) <(heroku config --app $APP2)"
echo $CMD
eval $CMD
It looks like fees and taxes for car rentals is out of control. Anyone notice? Here is an example.
I wanted to rent a car for two weeks so I shopped around. It looks like for a car it would be about $360 dollars a week that totalled specifically to $729.30 for two weeks.
Click the button to finalize and the total is $1046. What? There is $317 dollars in taxes and fees. Nearly the price of a week's rental.
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| Compact Suv | | 729.30 |
| Unlimited Mileage | | |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| | | |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| TAXES & FEE | | |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| Consolidated Facility Chg 6.00/Dy | 84.00 | |
| Concession Recovery Fee 11.11 Pct | 81.77 | |
| Wa State Rental Tax 5.9 Pct | 48.25 | |
| Rta Tax 0.80 Pct | 6.54 | |
| Sports Facility Tax 1.00 Pct | 8.18 | |
| Veh License Cost Recovery .48/Day | 6.72 | |
| Sales Tax (10.0%) | 81.78 | |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| | | 317.24 |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
| | | |
| TOTAL | | 1046.54 |
|-----------------------------------+-------+---------|
I've noticed that to some extent all jobs tend to face time. Sure, there are exceptions but there is a tendency.
When you hear things like, "90% of the job is just showing up", there might be a clue there.
Large organizations seem to tend to not trust their employees and in return force a culture of face time because that is the simplest way to hold someone accountable.
"Well, at least he/she shows up" keeps many people employeed.
Continue reading →Weekend chore. The Mac has no more space.
$ df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1 243924992 219810484 23858508 91% 55016619 5964627 90% /
devfs 180 180 0 100% 626 0 100% /dev
Show directory sizes.
$ du -sh *