Short answer: because you’re a freaking idiot.
Long answer: My shell script is on a Linux server. I access via ssh using Putty. I run it from the command line, from Window #1,  like this:
$ bin/myapp.sh &
when I close my ssh window. In Window #2, I watch the logs, and I can see that myapp.sh has [...]

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Yeah, a few quiet hours on the weekend and time to code.
I’m a little behind, but I’ve been thinking about mobile alot lately. So it was time to upgrade my Android SDK to 1.5.
First thing I do is upgrade the Android Developer Tools for Eclipse. Inside the Eclipse “Software Updates” wizard, I can see [...]

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It’s an exciting time to be a Java programmer.
That’s a big change of opinion for me. I started my career with interpreted languages (Usertalk, Python, Perl) and Java seemed really verbose and unproductive.  And it’s still verbose.
But a great set of tools make me really productive.The tool infrastructure  has come such a long way. Eclipse [...]

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