Talk:Programming tips & tricks

Love the ifconfig>grep>awk command! But it's not necessary to be root on my box - I don't think my perms are screwed up, but it's possible.

Digiot 17:26, Mar 1, 2004 (EST)

Me again. This section seems kind of sparse. Is it maybe due to people not wanting to just plop down any old tip in the middle of nowhere? What do folks think of the idea of moving 'scripting' over here as 'shell scripting' and coming up with some more subcategories. I know it seems paradoxical to categorize very little content, but maybe that'll shake loose some tips from folks.

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Digiot 01:41, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

That's a pretty big maybe Digiot. But having shell scripting here would be nice. How about letting folks jot down other tips too. I mean not restricting folks to just Programming. Maybe tips about using some GUI tool and things like that.

What say?

Linuxlala

Given that this page/subject will grow in time, one possibility would be to have category links to separate pages for each programming language rather than having all the content on one page - you could of course bring some order to a page with sections and a T.O.C - however, even a T.O.C can become excessively large after some time - so, much as we're going to only have main categories on the Applications page, we should only have main category links on this page - candidates would be C/C++/Java/Python/Perl/BASH_scripting etc etc etc etc etc, plenty of scope for other categories aswell...

Skyline 09:42, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

I think the IP trick should go under networking. If anyone agrees, please move it there. BTW: I have gentoo and debian stable, neither has any permissions screwed up, and the ifconfig works. Koody

Please place entries in order. We probably should have done inverse order but, unless and until there's a general change, let's keep it in order. I agree - a simple usage of ifconfig doesn't require root - only that sbin be on your path or that you give the full path.

Looks like I'm late to the discussion as far as the rest. Sure, gone for it! ;)

Digiot 21:18, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

What about it now? Sorry for changing right away, but I only remembered to look here after I already had changed the page.

TRauMa 23:46, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

The page that "shell" links to here doesn't really make any sense...

EvilSporkMan 22:29, Mar 6, 2004 (EST)

Don't think "Unsafe languages" should be listed under "Compiled languages" as a main "compiled language" - by all means have it as a link from other pages etc as normal though.

Skyline 11:23, Mar 12, 2004 (EST)

I don't think each language should have two separate pages (ie. the language page, and the language_tips page). They should be merged.

Same goes for the API and API_tips pages. You get all the API tips you want from the API's docs.

My 2 cents.

I see that someone setting up Perl/Perl_tips agrees with me.

JohnMG 16:15, Apr 1, 2004 (EST)