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
Category: Miscellany
EDGE Training Method
EDGE is a basic teaching tool designed to guide the instructor in a series of steps that will include all learning styles. This is the training method taught by the Boy Scouts of America. Since attending the class, I have used this method for all the training materials I create. The EDGE Method The steps … Continue reading EDGE Training Method
Dignity
What is dignity? Is it a right or a perspective? It is both. The word "dignity" is overloaded and is the name of two unrelated concepts. The perspective is more about opinion of worthiness. The right is the foundation of what today is called Human Rights. "...Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal … Continue reading Dignity
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