It's a hassle to have to switch from emacs to the shell, run unit tests, pick out the failure, switch back to emacs, navigate to the line, forget where you were supposed to go, switch back, etc etc.
The whole process is much easier with compilation-perl.el. This handy ...
The process for building debian packages is actually very well documented, though many of the tutorials you will find are aimed at people who are packaging third-party software instead of their own.
Also, I'm running on Debian's Lenny, and I need to produce packages that install cleanly on ...
The items below are useful systems based on my experience working with a bunch of different software teams at a handful of companies over the past decade-plus. I haven't bothered to list things like compilers, interpreters, libraries, etc. If you don't have those, you aren't making software ...
Every now and then I have to run a foreground job under sudo that doesn't want to die when I hit ^C. Then it's a hassle to ^Z, get the pid of the sudo job, and sudo kill that pid.
So I wrote a little script (or a ...
This is a rundown of the things you should have in your toolkit -- doesn't matter whether you call yourself a software engineer, programmer, developer, code monkey, etc.