While setting up an unattended testing environment which uses Android emulators, I’ve run into difficulties with the default system settings. An Android Virtual Device – like any freshly-installed Android device – is created with default settings which are not very friendly for a testing environment, namely: the lock screen is active, and shows up when […]
I’ve run into situations where it was necessary to read the values of bash environment variables defined in a file into a python script. Something like that is achieved in bash simply by doing: source env.vars or . env.vars Where the content of env.vars could be something like this: BASE=/home/user/scripts BIN_DIR=$BASE/bin VAR1=xxxxx VAR2=yyyy The solutions […]
Few libraries have been as useful to me over the years as Perl’s Config::General. It gives us a simple way to create configurable scripts with minimal code, in a syntax-light configuration file format. The configuration file format is similar to apache’s, and the module can parse native apache configuration files. How to start using it: use Config::General; […]
