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This handy piece of code colors errors and warnings in make output.
(put it in your .bash_profile) 

make()
{
  pathpat="(/[^/]*)+:[0-9]+???
  ccred=$(echo -e ???\033[0;31m")
  ccyellow=$(echo -e "\033[0;33m")
  ccend=$(echo -e "\033[0m")
  /usr/bin/make "$@" 2>&1 | sed -E -e "/[Ee]rror[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccred&$ccend%g??? -e ???/[Ww]arning[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccyellow&$ccend%g???
  return ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
}

via shawnwilsher.com

An alternative would be to install colormake and use that instead of the normal make command.

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If you need to direct output into the void in your program on a *NIX system you simply pipe or redirect it to the null device /dev/null.
Needing a similar functionality today in a C# .NET project I found the following equivalent:

Stream.Null

Seemed fairly useful to me 😉

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Today I did a little bit of XSLT coding and stumbled over the problem to convert ISO 8601 date strings into a more human readable format.

Specifically I wanted to turn a date of the form 2008-04-10T16:12:27Z to the typical german format of 10.04.2008 16:12:27 and spit the whole thing out as HTML to display it on a webpage.
After a bit of time I came up with the following XSLT (sanitized):



	
	
		
		
			
				
				
			
			dtstart

Using this example and the mighty power of substring() it should be pretty easy to convert any date format into an other one.