Text files are a very versatile and convenient data format. Linux offers a set of tools that make it easy to manipulate them and are a great addition to your arsenal. Furthermore, with the Windows Subsytem for Linux these are readily available on Windows. I didn't use much Linux for a long time. These were the old Microsoft days where it was all about Windows. But a few … [Read more...] about 8 Essential Tools for Text Processing on Linux (and Windows!)
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Visual Studio: Unnecessary builds
You are debugging in Visual Studio, you stop the debugger and hit F5 again. Now Visual Studio is re-building several of your projects and it takes a long time before the debugger launches again. What gives? Unnecessary builds in Visual Studio are a problem I've seen over and over in my projects, and it's particularly annoying for large solutions. In theory, unless you make … [Read more...] about Visual Studio: Unnecessary builds