Been off the blog for sometime now. Been a bit busy with work and also with preparations for marriage (on Nov 7th) so haven’t got much time in between to post. Here’s something interesting (and hopefully useful). I’ve always been a fan of Log4Net (http://logging.apache.org/log4net). However, on this occasion, I had to use something that was custom built (using open source doesn’t go well with certain customers). So decided to look into System.

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Have put together a skeleton of a Region matching library in Perl. Idea was triggered from the log analysis script that I was writing last week. That worked pretty well, except for the fact that my fiance wanted to do other little bits with some other regions of the same file. And then I got thinking and realized that 90% of the time I am trying to match text delimited by some patterns and trying to do something with the text in between - for instance, add log statements at start and end of function calls in a VB.

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Have spent the better part of yesterday night writing a Perl script to aid my fiance' in doing some log analysis. And I’m no Perl guru - my biggest Perl program till date wouldn’t have been more than a 100 lines. Here’s my raves and rants on it Raves Most powerful reg ex capabilities with a full programming language to back it up! Large and powerful standard library.

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So I managed to get myself a gmail account - raghu dot rajagopalan at gmail dot com :). And I love google groups access. However, wanted to know if there is some way where my posts don’t show my email address. Have posted a query to google feedback - will let you know if something comes of it. Meanwhile have started looking at NUnitForms - have to try out some code to see if it’s as nice as nunit.

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I'm back...

general

Havent really been active on the blog - kind of ignored it till now. Anyway, I’m back, fwiw. There’s been quite a lot of changes here and I guess that’s the thing that’s kept me from blogging - add to it the fact that I’m new to maintaining a journal on the web. These days am looking for some generous person to invite me to Gmail. Haven’t really done much on the programming front - other than digging around to find out if I can launch an executable on the client from a web page without the warning pop ups.

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Set up my blog

blogging

Just finished setting my place for raves and rants on the net. More to see what a blog provides and out of curiosity rather than anything else.

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Anti patterns - What not to do Pitfalls to avoid However, an equal number of implementations that run into rough weather are also because they lack strong engineering leadership. Especially in a corporate/enterprise environment, you need strong engineering leadership who can push for good engineering hygiene. Now, none of these are very special to microservices so it’s Lack focus on the domain - The easiest way to mess up a microservices implementation is to not structure your domain well.

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