Tag Archives: My Software

TaskForest Write-up at SourceForge

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on April 2, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , . 3 Comments.
TaskForest Logo
SourceForge.net has a blog in which they feature a different hosted project every day.  Today’s blog entry features my open-source job scheduler, TaskForest.  I’d like to take this opportunity to thank SourceForge for their support of open source software.

Navigating the Directory Stack in ‘bash’

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on February 20, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . 3 Comments.
Barracks by the Taj Mahal
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time jumping from project to project in a Linux shell.  I find that I have to switch back and forth between directories.  The bash shell has commands to maintain a stack of directories.  I’ve written some functions that use these utilities to make directory navigation easier. [...]

Sometimes Testing Isn’t Enough

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on February 15, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
A Bee. Buzzing.
In the first few days after the release of Google Buzz many people (including myself) criticized Google for exposing their users' private information. This was a couple of weeks after Apple got a lot flak for their unfortunately-named iPad, and the same week that we heard reports of a woman who broke up with her boyfriend after finding some suggestive text messages on his cell phone - messages that came pre-loaded on the phone. I think that all these cases were not caused by a lack testing, but by testing the wrong audience. Let's examine these three cases and see what we can learn from them: