My name is Vlad Skvortsov, I'm
a software engineer: it's my job, hobby
and addiction.
My primary interests include
high-performance, scalable,
fault-tolerant distributed
systems; server-side applications;
information retrieval technologies;
procedural aspects of software
engineering process.
I work on several private and
open-source projects, hacking in Python, Haskell, Erlang,
Perl and C.
Guitar, hiking, ice hockey and
other hobbies help me to balance my
life.
My e-mail is
vss@73rus.com.
Switching iTerm To UTF-8
Oct 30 2009, 18:12
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This is just a short note on how I (finally) migrated to UTF-8 in my terminal
(iTerm 0.10) on MacOS X 10.4.
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Bourne Shell Functions In Pipelines
Sep 23 2008, 11:02
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I spent quite some time trying to debug a simple shell script which used a
function modifying global variables. The problem turned out to be a different
behaviour of a shell function when that's called from a pipeline.
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