
I’ve been playing around with writing some algorithms in both Ruby and Haskell and the latter wasn’t giving the correct result so I wanted to output an...
0 replies - 1777 views - 01/03/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Controlling a LED is a great starter for any embedded project: simple and you immediately get feedback if it works . Even better: as driving a LED...
0 replies - 1623 views - 01/03/13 by Erich Styger in Articles

When you run VPS servers or other “low end” boxes it is common scenario need to setup a outgoing email mail transfer agent to get reports from cron jobs or...
0 replies - 3104 views - 01/02/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

Looking to better understand networking in VirtualBox? Oracle's Fat Bloke offers an extremely detailed primer:Networking in VirtualBox is...
0 replies - 3147 views - 01/02/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

At the 2012 San Francisco JUC, Cloudbees' Toomas Romer and Anton Arhipov discuss continuous delivery:
Packages sent via FedEx go through a tracked,...
0 replies - 1393 views - 01/01/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Skype is the most popular IM client with over 200 million monthly users. It’s easy and reliable: anyone can use it anywhere, even on mobile. When you...
0 replies - 1855 views - 01/01/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

Something that I’ve noticed when trying to install various different bundles is that the installation instructions which worked flawlessly...
0 replies - 1978 views - 01/01/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

For the first few years that I worked professionally* every project that I worked on was different enough to the previous ones that I was always learning...
0 replies - 3573 views - 12/31/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

I’m a big fan of system packages for lots of reasons and have often ended up rolling my own debian package repository at work, or working with...
0 replies - 1511 views - 12/31/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

Unlike many, I’m actually a good boy and do backups of my personal data (for which I can mostly thank my obsessive-compulsive side). However, up until now...
1 replies - 1550 views - 12/31/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

Here are some notes regarding how to install Ubuntu 12.10 in a VirtualBox VM. It contains a set of slides since the process is well represented...
0 replies - 10355 views - 12/30/12 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

"John, I can't get Jurassic Park back on line without Dennis Nedry."
Words you never want to hear uttered. Unless you work for InGen, it's highly...
0 replies - 2990 views - 12/29/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles

The most frequent conversation I had this year was with colleagues who
asked for advice on their "career path". How should they stay motivated?
How do they...
0 replies - 4403 views - 12/29/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

From #zsh @ freenode.net<xxx> I wouldn't ever want to position a cursor using a mouse.
not even in an editor. a mouse has its uses.
but...
5 replies - 5405 views - 12/28/12 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

SSH keys are useful to login over ssh (secure shell) without typing a password. They are also used by Github and other version control systems for...
0 replies - 2351 views - 12/28/12 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles