In my code ramblings during the developement of Code Zauker, I ended up studing a bit NoSql  database.

Code zauker started using Redis, because Redis is a very bold memory-based no-sql db. Redis also support complex data type like sorted set, lists and so on, which was very userful. Anyway I needed a very fast way of doing statistics on data collected by code zauker, for inspecting data and finding out new feature I'd like to add to it. Worst, my current pocket pose a hard limit on a redis instance in terms of available RAM. So I started thinking a lot about a redis drop-in replacement for Code Zauker.

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Don’t play the stupid game Cause I’m a different kind of  engine Every search sounds the same You’ve got to step into my world Give me all your RAM and give me your code Give me all your code today

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And so you was waiting for news?

Nice to impress you: I was able to shot two code zauker versions in less than a month!

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Replacing on entiere set of files is hard in Emacs. But I find the correct mumbo-magic procedure, and gifted it to you:

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Negli ultimi mesi ho sviluppato un motore di ricerca per il codice, chiamato code zauker.

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In a nutshell, xargs is an alternative to fully expanded shell for loops. Given the right options, xargs can be made to exhibit for-loop-like behavior. But out of the box, it is a way to pipe a bunch of arguments to a single command in one fell swoop.

This can save a great deal of compute time if you are piping a long list of arguments to a command rather than iterating over them one at a time.

In  A small primer on xargs you will find a deep explanation on xargs usage. The article teach me a bunch of tricks I am not aware of (and I know Unix from '93....yes, 1993...).

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ForceBindIP is a freeware Windows application that will inject itself into another application and alter how certain Windows Sockets calls are made, allowing you to force the other application to use a specific network interface / IP address. This is useful if you are in an environment with multiple interfaces and your application has no such option for binding to a specific interface.

via ForceBindIP - Bind any Windows application to a specific interface.

Using iPhone/Android Tethering features, you can end up with a

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In the last seven months I learned git, working for a dozen of projects. On some of them I was the master&commander, on others I only set up the streams and let the young Jedi find the way to the delivery. Via trial and error I find out a bunch of userful commands.

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Git Flow is a very popular workflow for working with git. I have the lucky to set up Git on a medium sized project, and the following article helped me a lot... I report you the schema too, because it was very useful in a presentation I attended.

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cvs2svn/cvs2git is a tool that can be used to migrate CVS repositories to newer version control tools, including git. git is a distributed version control system most famous for being used for Linux kernel development. The program used to convert to git, called cvs2git, is distributed as part of the cvs2svn project.

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