For bureaucratic reasons, a colleague of mine had to print, sign, scan and send by email a high number of pages. To save trees, ink, time, and to stick it...
entr (http://entrproject.org/) provides a more friendly interface to inotify (and also supports *BSD & Mac OS X).
It makes it very easy to specify multiple files to watch (limited only by ulimit -n), takes the hassle out of dealing with files being replaced, and requires less bash syntax:
$ find . -name '*.py' | entr ./myfile.py
As a database developer, you want these sub-transactions or autonomous transactions to be processed and committed regardless of what happens to the larger surrounding transaction block.
The pg_background Postgres extension originally written by Robert Haas starts a separate worker to process a SQL statement, which is a nice way to achieve an autonomous transaction.
Sans Forgetica is a typeface that has been scientifically designed to aid memory retention. It was designed by a multidisciplinary team of academics and designers at RMIT University to aid students when studying.
Avoid sharing script objects or script arrays across threads (this includes global.) Sharing script objects is asking for trouble. Share only primitive data types, or Java objects.