Monthly Archives: November 2013

Chatting at work for fun and profit

As I am writing this, I am employed as a software engineer at XS4ALL, the oldest consumer internet provider in the Netherlands. One of the things that makes people at XS4ALL so effective, is the use of a company IRC … Continue reading

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Giving people limited shell access to your server

At work, I develop all kinds of backend software. We have a team of testers for high-level testing (in addition to the many unit-tests we have). At some point, I had written a Perl script that was going to run … Continue reading

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