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Dulwich – a native python way to access Git repositories
Ever wanted to manipulate Git repositories directly in python? Well, okay… I haven’t really myself, but in writing about Google Code’s support for git yesterday, I noticed that they are using Dulwich,...
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Node.js Knockout Contest Coming Up August 27 – Will You Compete?
Do you know Node.js? If so, have you thought about joining the Node.js Knockout contest starting on August 27th? It’s basically a 48-hour contest to see which team can create the most awesome Node.js...
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oXygen’s Excellent Example of a Release Timeline / ChangeLog Page
As I was recently downloading a new version of the excellent oXygen XML editor (which I used to write my “Migrating Apps to IPv6” book for O’Reilly), I was struck by how great their “Release Timeline”...
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Want To Help Guide Git’s Development? Take the 2011 Git Users’s Survey!
Do you use the git version control system? If so, do you wish it worked a bit differently? Or did you find it hard to use in some way? If you don’t, did you try to start using it and found it difficult...
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Amusing Video Tutorial: Let’s Suck at Github Together
If you want to learn more about using git and Github, or are a fan/user of git/Github (as I am) and want to pass along a video tutorial for others to see, you may enjoy this episode from Chris Coyier...
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How To Create Github-style “Fork Me” Ribbons Using Only CSS
Can you create a “Fork Me On Github” ribbon using only CSS? And have it say some other message? That was the question I asked myself while working on a new website (for the new job). You see, the new...
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Remember Perl? RWW Highlights the Future of Perl 5
Remember perl? The “scripting language” that was the one of the first that many of us used on UNIX to automate system administration tasks? And then was later used in the 1990s for a ton of web CGI...
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R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, half of the K&R Bible for C Programming
For those of us of a certain age, “The C Programming Language“, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, was our “bible” as we learned to program in those very early days. Our copies of...
View ArticleAll Mobile Apps Developers (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, etc.) Need To...
As I mentioned on my Disruptive Telephony blog today, this post by Troy Hunt really should be mandatory reading for anyone developing applications for mobile platforms: Secret iOS business; what you...
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Vim is 20 Years Old Today!
Amazing to read via Ars Technica that Vim is 20 years old today! In the proverbial “vi vs emacs” religious war, I’ve always come down firmly on the side of vi/vim…. but mainly because I started using...
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The Google vs Amazon Platform Rant – A Must-Read From Steve Yegge
What does Amazon.com do so much better than Google? And why does Amazon do everything “wrong” while Google does everything “right”… yet offer a better platform? How should you construct a “platform”...
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Unix Turns 40 – And IEEE Provides a Historical Look Back
As the Unix operating system turns 40 this year, writer Warren Toomey published an excellent historical piece in this month’s IEEE spectrum: The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix: The classic...
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New version 0.1.3 of Tropo-webapi-python: Build Tropo voice/SMS/IM/Twitter...
My former colleague Justin Dupree just posted a new version of the Tropo-webapi-python package to Pypi at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tropo-webapi-python/ To install the package, assuming you have...
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New Github for Mac 1.1 Release Nov 23rd…
I just noticed yesterday that a new version of Github for Mac was released on November 23rd. The blog post about the 1.1 release highlights the major changes as: The “Changes” view has been completely...
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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...
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