FIND-AND-REPLACE SHORTCUTS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

If you are going to work efficiently as a programmer, then your search skills have got to be on point. You need to be able to Ctrl+F and Ctrl+H yourself out of trouble, and quick! When find-and-replace work gets tricky, that’s when you pull out Regular Expressions, the power tool of searching. You can use … Continue reading FIND-AND-REPLACE SHORTCUTS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

August 14, 1765 – Boston Meets the Sons of Liberty

On this day,  about five months following the signing of the Stamp Act of 1765, two hundred forty-four years ago, an effigy was hung from a tree on Newbury Street in Boston. The effigy was of Andrew Oliver, the man to be commissioned as the Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts. Oliver was set up to be the … Continue reading August 14, 1765 – Boston Meets the Sons of Liberty