Howto: Pause a Shell Script July 20, 2009
Posted by ccollins in How To, Languages, Linux, Open Source, Software Engineering.Tags: bash, c shell, csh, korn shell, ksh, scripting, shell, unix
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File this one under “Another Nifty script-let”. The problem this time is getting a shell script to pause for user input. What I needed was a way to make a script stop, saying “Hit a key to continue..”, wait for the user to hit a key, then continue the script execution. Here’s how:
Risky Business July 15, 2009
Posted by ccollins in Database, Essays, Opinion, Software Engineering.Tags: development, engineering, estimation, project management, risk, risk assessment, software, software project management
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Anecdotally, I had always known that Software Engineers are terrible at estimation. I had never realised exactly how bad we are.
Some rules of thumb which seem to pop up now and again, is to take your engineers best estimates, and double them. Then you’re actually in the ball park.
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