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Google’s Python Class Provides A Great Introduction
Want to learn python? It turns out that Google has put together a great series of lessons, videos and exercises that will help you get started quickly with using Python. You can get to the courses at:...
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Node.js Project Leader Ryan Dahl Steps Down To Work On Research Projects
Citing a desire to work on research projects after three years of focused work, Node.js creator and project leader Ryan Dahl sent out a message today that he will be “ceding my position as gatekeeper...
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O’Reilly Offers 50% Off On Git Ebook And Videos Through Feb 8th
Being a huge fan of the git version control system, I was pleased to see that O’Reilly is offering 50% off on their git-related videos and ebook. I haven’t seen the videos, but the “Version Control...
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An Excellent Collection of Node.js Links
Want to learn more about Node.js, a topic I’ve frequently written about here? If so, a friend recently pointed me to an excellent collection of Node.js-related links compiled by Stanislav Stoyanov: My...
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White House Summer Jobs Code Sprint Deadline is Monday, April 16, 2012
Interesting to see that the White House is sponsoring its first ever code sprint… from the announcement back on April 2nd: Today we’re announcing the first ever White House Code Sprint. This is a call...
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Contrasting Mercurial vs Git: Two Opposing Blog Posts
Which should you use for a distributed version control system (DVCS) – git or mercurial? That was the question taken up recently by two opposing blog posts on Atlassian’s blog: Mercurial vs git: Why...
View ArticleEFF’s Coders’ Rights Video: Do It For The Kittens!
Sooooo… the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), of which I am a member, sends out a promotional video for their Coders’ Rights Project that involves… kittens??? While I support the Coders’ Rights...
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Hell Hath Truly Frozen Over: Microsoft WindowsAzure Supports Linux
In the category of “Things I Never Thought I’d See In My Lifetime“, given all of Microsoft’s intense animosity toward anything related to Linux (ex. Steve Ballmer’s infamous “Linux is a cancer” quote),...
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Github’s “Command Bar” Makes Site Navigation So Much Faster
Recently Github introduced a new “Command Bar” into the site that I simply have to comment on because I find it so useful. It’s sitting right up there at the top of the site looking like your...
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SourceForge Redesigns Itself To Compete With Github
When I received an email today telling me that one of my ancient projects was being “upgraded” to the “new” SourceForge developer platform, I had to admit that I had no clue that SourceForge was even...
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Use Google+? Join the Github and Git Communities
Are you a Google+ use who is also interested in the git version control system and the Github hosting service? If so, there are two of the new “communities” in Google+ that you may find of interest:...
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Fun Tool To Learn More About Git Branching And Merging
Want to learn more about how to work with branches in git? Confused about what “git rebase” does? By way of a post on Google+ I learned about this great tutorial site at:...
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The Intersection of Github… and Babylon 5?
Back in the 1990′s I was a huge fan of the show “Babylon 5″ for a great number of reasons. It remains, to this day, one of the best series I’ve ever watched on TV and I greatly admire the...
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ACM: Python Now The Most Popular Intro Language At Top US Universities
As a long-time fan of the python language, I was intrigued by this post on the ACM’s blog: “Python is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities“. The post begins with...
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Code.DanYork.Com Now Back Available Over IPv6
After a Reddit thread started up that briefly referenced a 2011 post I wrote about adding IPv6 to Node.js apps, I was contacted by a Redditor who was surprised that my site wasn’t available over IPv6!...
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Can You Please Help The Ottawa Linux Symposium?
If you have ever used the Linux operating system, could you please help out the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS)? For many years OLS has been one of the key events that has helped bring together people...
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Tracking The Shellshock BASH Vulnerability – News, Tools and Links
With all the attention today to the Shellshock vulnerability, I need a place to keep track of it for my own purposes. If this page or list helps anyone else, that’s great, but this is primarily a tool...
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Congrats to FreeBSD On Their $1 Million Donation
Wow! Many congratulations to the folks at the FreeBSD Foundation for receiving a generous $1 million donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp. And of course many, MANY thanks to Jan Koum...
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Firewalls Now Looking At Intercepting SSH Traffic Via A MITM Attack
Can you trust Secure Shell (SSH) when you are behind certain firewalls? That’s the question raised by a post from a friend of mine: Lies, Damn Lies, and Inspecting SSH Traffic Securely It seems that...
View ArticleTraceroute to bad.horse provides amusing results
For network geeks, this is rather amusing… someone was obviously a bit bored some day and had a bit of fun! This was what it looked like on my Mac right now. (Hat tip to Michele Neylon for first...
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Do you use Docker Swarm? If so, how?
Do you use Docker Swarm? If so, how? I have been incredibly intrigued ever since reading about the release of Docker 1.12 earlier this week. As Benjamin Wooten writes, now with only two commands: We...
View ArticleNew Github repo for using WordPress with Docker
As I wrote over on my Disruptive Conversations site, I’ve been playing around with using Docker as a way to easily test new WordPress versions and plugins. As part of that testing, I was trying to...
View ArticleVideo: Using Docker Compose to install WordPress
Shortly after publishing my last post about how to use Docker to install WordPress and MySQL, I happened to watch a video showing basically the same process: The speaker walks through the steps you...
View ArticleVideo I Found Useful: “Getting Started with Docker”
As I’ve been exploring more about Docker and containers over the past month or two, I’ve been watching MANY videos on YouTube. One of the “intro to Docker” ones that I quite liked was this one from...
View ArticleHow to Install Etherpad Locally Using Docker
Recently I was discussing with a couple of people how Etherpad works so well for collaborative editing. I realized it had been a while since I’d used Etherpad and, with a plane flight ahead of me, I...
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