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Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

CoderMerlin Courier

Volume VOLUME, Issue ISSUE - Month Two Thousand Twenty

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science

Current Contests[edit]

Essay Writing Contest[edit]

Why is the primary role of technology to improve humanity? You can read more about the essay and prize: here.

Excalibur Award
	$100.00

Hints, Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts[edit]

Linux[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	This is a Linux Tip

Swift[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	This is a Swift Tip

Emacs[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	This is an emacs hint

Git[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	This is an emacs hint

Newly Installed and Updated Services[edit]

Emacs Updates 27.1[edit]

Native support for JSON parsing
Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line

In order to ensure you receive the latest features, re-initialize your skeleton:

jane-williams@codermerlin:~/www$ skel-init

Then completely log off before logging back on. Run emacs (without any parameters) and wait for the initialization to complete.

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 == Newly Installed and Updated Services ==
-=== Swift Update ===
+=== Emacs Updates 27.1 ===
-[[File:Swift-og.png|thumb|left|link=]]
+[[File:Emacs 512.png|120px|right|link=]]
-Swift 5.3.2 is now available! You can read more about the update [https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-3-released/ here].
+* Native support for JSON parsing
-<br clear='all'/>
+* Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line
-=== Octave Available ===
-[[File:Octave Sombrero.svg|thumb|left|link=]]
-GNU Octave is now available! Octave is a Powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in 2D/3D plotting and visualization tools.  You can read more about Octave [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index here].
-<br clear='all'/>
-=== Vapor Toolbox Available ===
-[[File:Vapor.png|thumb|left|link=]]
-The Vapor Toolbox is now available!  The Vapor Toolbox simplifies common command line tasks when using Vapor.  You can read more about Vapor [https://github.com/vapor/vapor here].
-You can run your vapor project using the following command:
-{{ConsoleLine|jane-williams@codermerlin:~/projects/vaporTest$|vapor run serve --hostname $IGIS_LOCAL_HOST --port $IGIS_LOCAL_PORT}}
-<br clear='all'/>
-=== ImageMagick Available ===
+In order to ensure you receive the latest features, re-initialize your skeleton:
-[[File:Mona Lisa headcrop.jpg|thumb|left|link=]]
-Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.  You can read more about ImageMagick [https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick here].
-For a very simple example, you can try the following in your www directory:
 {{ConsoleLines|
-{{Cyan|jane-williams@codermerlin:~/www$}} convert -background cyan -gravity Center -font Utopia-Italic -weight 500 -pointsize 100 caption:"CoderMerlin" codermerlin.png
+{{Cyan|jane-williams@codermerlin:~/www$}} skel-init
-<br />
-{{Cyan|jane-williams@codermerlin:~/www$}} chmod a+r codermerlin.png
 }}
-Then, browse to your www directory and load '''codermerlin.png'''
+Then completely log off before logging back on.  Run emacs (without any parameters) and wait for the initialization to complete.
 <br clear='all' />