You have a bunch of related applications, each has their own Makefile that knows only about their own application, but you have dependencies where one app needs to be built before another. Here’s a skeleton bash script for building any one thing or everything.

#!/bin/bash

function build {
echo "*** …

Run system commands or call a sub-process and assign the return value to a variable. This makes it easy to pass the error up to your processes parent.

First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.

I ran into these two methods for grabbing just the unique elements from a list, one keeps the order, the other relies on sorting the list. But then I found some strange code that works really fast. Check out this amazing little one liner!

Iterators in python are so easy. I saw some articles on random sites about building generators to do stuff, but in the end they were only trying to iterate through a file line by line so why make it harder on yourself. Declare an iterator of the type …