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

— Merlin, The Coder

CoderMerlin Courier

Volume One, Issue Three - January Two Thousand Twenty-One

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
	$250.00

Hints, Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts[edit]

Command Line Tips[edit]

Helpful Hint

Slow typist? You can use the alias command. For example, to type the shortcut mt rather than merlin test you can add an alias: alias mt='merlin test'

If you'd like to make your aliases permanent (rather than lasting only for the current session) you can add them to your ~/.bash_aliases file.

Swift[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	This is a Swift Tip

Emacs[edit]

	Helpful Hint
	Web-mode supports both PHP and HTML in the same buffer. Web-mode can be activated with: `ALT`-`x` web-mode `RETURN`

Git[edit]

Helpful Hint

Tags can be easily moved by using the --force option.

git tag --force J1154.Final
git push origin --force J1154.Final

Newly Installed and Updated Services[edit]

Disk Space Increased[edit]

The available disk space has been increased to 1.0 GiB.

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.

Vapor Available[edit]

Swift Vapor applications are now available. See Vapor for configuration information.

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 == Hints, Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts ==
-=== Linux ===
+=== Command Line Tips ===
 {{Hint2|[[File:Linux logo.jpg|120px|link=]]|
-This is a Linux Tip
+Slow typist? You can use the <syntaxhighlight lang='bash' inline>alias</syntaxhighlight> command.  For example, to type the shortcut  <syntaxhighlight lang='bash' inline>mt</syntaxhighlight> rather than  <syntaxhighlight lang='bash' inline>merlin test</syntaxhighlight> you can add an alias:
+<syntaxhighlight lang='bash' inline>alias mt='merlin test'</syntaxhighlight>
+If you'd like to make your aliases permanent (rather than lasting only for the current session) you can add them to your <code>~/.bash_aliases</code> file.
 }}