Thursday, February 21, 2008
Just got done reading about this and it sounds like a pretty cool idea. The basic premise is that Ubuntu community members can make a huge contribution by “tending” 5 bugs a day. Developers fix bugs, users triage and confirm bugs, etc. Jono explains it better.
Perhaps I will try to get involved in this. I [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Despite being very simplistic, I want to share my backup script. This will only work for you if you are running on a machine with rsync on it, which is most Linux, Unix machines.
Here is the code:
echo “Syncing ~/docs”
rsync -ave ssh local/folder user@:host:remote/folder
This is pretty much the entirety. I just choose a few different folders [...]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Today, I was a given a copy of Code Complete 2nd Edition at work. I ended up talking to a coworker about must-have books for professional software developers/engineers. So my question is, what books in your collection do you consider must-haves?
I have meant to write up a list a few times in the past but [...]
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Research Net Neutrality. I don’t know nearly enough about what’s going on there.
Article that spured the research gathering: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/the-coming-exaflood.ars
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
I, along with 2 friends, gave an ACM presentation on Ubuntu today. I think it went over pretty well. The presentation might have been a little too short, but was too long when they gave a similar presentation last semester. We had a few good conversations after the presentation, so it was a success in [...]