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An Illustrated Explanation of Distributed Version Control

This article graphically goes through some of the basics of distributed version control and explains how it differs from centralized version control.

There’s a reference to an hour long video of Linus talking about Git at the end.

March 31, 2010 Posted by | Software Development | , | Leave a comment

Opera Logo Rendered in Pure CSS

Opera Logo rendered in pure CSS using border-radii, gradients, and box shadows.  Doesn’t really look that bad on any of the modern browsers, with the exception of IE.

March 29, 2010 Posted by | WWW | , , , | Leave a comment

Mobile Web Use on the Rise

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/29/opera-mini-sees-50-5-million-mobile-users-in-february-up-145-percent/

March 29, 2010 Posted by | WWW | Leave a comment

Top 10 One Liners from Command Line Fu

Don’t you hate it when you open up a read-only file in vim and then try to save it?

Hate no more:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-commandlinefu-explained/

March 22, 2010 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , | Leave a comment

A libc Free World (or Why’s HelloWorld.out 11 KB?)

Hello from a libc-free world!

Update (2010/3/29):

Much along the  same vein: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

March 16, 2010 Posted by | Software Development | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Real Time Commodore 64 Hacking in an Emulator

The Matrix … It burns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjcvR5McmSg

March 15, 2010 Posted by | Hacking | , , | Leave a comment