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CSV HELL!!!
Recently I had the pleasure to work with CSV files. And it ended in a CSV hell for me! The functionality I wanted wasn't available anywhere (As often happens when you provide custom solutions to your clients!) The client didn't want to rely completely on the system! (I question the need for the system in such circumstances, but the client wanted the system! Brilliant! Kind of like 'hey, I'll be travelling in Bus but just in case lets have that train available and tracks laid out!) Anyway, I couldn't get them to change their preference and so this hell started. Now the situation is the client uses OpenOffice and/or MS Excel to edit the CSV's. They have excelsheets for the data and they export that to csv. I assumed I could write a parser for CSV and that would be it. But when I got to the task I just couldn't figure out the correct logic. One logic worked for some and failed for some other data and the other worked for some and failed for some other. Aft...
This brings tears of sorrow to my eyes
Min requirements for nfs : the run MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS: OS: Windows Vista SP2 32-bit DirectX: DirectX 10 Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Equivalent Memory: 3 GB Hard Drive: 18 GB Graphics card (AMD): 512 MB RAM ATI Radeon 4870 or higher performance Graphics card (NVIDIA): 512 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance Sound card: DirectX Compatible Keyboard or Gamepad or Steering Wheel DVD Rom Drive Online: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection RECOMMENDED: OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit DirectX: DirectX 11 Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD Equivalent Memory: 4 GB Hard Drive: 18 GB Graphics card (AMD): 1024 MB RAM ATI Radeon 6950 Graphics card (NVIDIA): 1024 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX560 Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Keyboard or Gamepad or Steering Wheel DVD Rom Drive Online: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection
Music Fail
I love working on things with music running in the background. The beat is a necessary thing to help me concentrate on my work. Also it's a way for me to get full concentration in my work. I don't use music libraries, instead I just play the albums one at a time depending on my mood. On windows nothing beats Winamp's explorer shortcut which lets me play my music folderwise, and since I have my music well arranged it's just a matter of few clicks to get the groove. On Linux though things are a bit different. The functionality available in winamp/windows is just not available anywhere. The best I can manage is with opening Totem and dragging the folder to it. Banshee and Rhythmbox don't accept dragged directories. In fact they even won't even accept m3u playlist. (This might be mitigated in latest releases - I tried on Ubuntu 10.10. Will try the same thing on 11.10 and update here.) This is certainly FAIL for people like me who don't like (or don't kno...
My Favourite Firefox Plugins
I use Stylish and Adblock Plus for ease of use while browsing. And firebug for Javascript development.
Shell Code to Recursively search a directory for files and process them one by one
#!/bin/sh $FILENAME="RECORDS" for FILE in `find . -name $FILENAME` do ## Process $FILE echo "FILE: $FILE" cat "$FILE" | ( # Read Header but don't process it read line # Read records while read line do echo $line done ) done The above shell script code searches through current directory (and subdirectories) for all files with name RECORDS. It then reads the files one by one and processes them line by line. Eg. If your record file is like follows "Name","TelNo" "A","1" "B","2" ... Then you could put following code to read off all names in while loop. $NAME=`echo $line| cut -d"," -f1` echo $NAME