Author Archives: Chris

Using Bash to Change the Delimiter in a CSV File

  The Problem I recently had a situation where I had a comma separated value (CSV) file that I wanted to easily parse within a shell script. Unfortunately the CSV data contained some double quoted strings with embedded commas, for example: "Adygeya, Republic",RU-AD,21250,RU,Russian Federation This made parsing the file quite painful, particularly as only the [...]
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Effective Learning: Quantity vs. Quality

A short musing on trying to achieve depth or breadth of knowledge when studying
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BCS South West: The Birth of a Third Platform

A summary of the BCS SW talk titled The Birth of a Third Platform, delivered by Lawrence Stephenson from Apple UK
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Disabling Geolocation in Firefox

Recent versions of Firefox enable a location awareness feature that can share your location with websites. Find out a bit more about it and, if you want, how to disable it in this post.
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Dodgy DNS in BT Home Hub 2.0

A problem and solution type posts for a nasty little DNS problem with a BT Home Hub 2.0 and my Windows XP Pro x64 laptop that prevented me from successfully browsing the internet, despite having a working internet connection.
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eXtreme Programming and the Capability Maturity Model

An essay I wrote for my software measurement and quality assurance module discussing how eXtreme programming can be implemented in a business and in such a way that it can satisfy the capability maturity model.
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NottTuesday: Get Funded!

My summary of the recent NottTuesday event "Get Funded!" all about different ways of getting investment for your startup
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BCS South West Agile Testing Talk

A summary of a talk I attended organised by the South West Branch of the BCS about agile testing in large software projects
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Doug Richard’s School For Startups at the University of Leicester 10/05/10

My impressions of Doug Richard's recent School For Startups event at the University of Leicester
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To What Extent is it Sensible to See Civilisation IV as a Game of Strategy?

An assignment I wrote for my third year strategy module discussing what strategy is and whether Civ4 can be considered a strategy game.
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