When all you have is a hammer...

For Pia...

tech/misc | 27 Sep 2004 | #

Stop the world, I want to get off

Just discovered something cool - a real-time open-source software activity log which monitors CVS checkins.

Amazing to see CVS checkins going on around the clock. Open-Source Software really is a global phenomenon.

But it's more than just information, it's a real indication of project activity. I mean I've known about Planet GNOME News for a while, but this sort of planet-style aggregation of CVS commits is a great idea.

The next step? How about security patch information? LWN and Linux Today have security pages and feeds, but not quite in the right form. LWN has good security info, but not in an RSS feed. Linux Today have advisories mixed in with general security articles, but one big RSS feed. If we had LWN security advisories for the major distributions available as an RSS feed, that'd be sweet.

tech/linux | 27 Sep 2004 | #

Windows Command-Line Completion

Something I can never find when I have to play with the devil: Command-Line completion on Windows.

tech/windows | 27 Sep 2004 | #

The Essential List

Whenever I go anywhere I always take a selection of technical books with me - with the number of books being proportional to the time I'll be away from home and the rest of my collection. As Chicago is only a week away I had to make my selection.

The Essential Books

Why these books? Some are reference books - what perl operator do I need?, some are for passing on to the unenlightened - Read Chapter 17 of Peopleware and then we can discuss. Others, like HHGTTG and Latin for all occasions provide inspiration for release names. I'm currently playing with C# using Gtk#, so Mono - A Developers Handbook and The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide are essential.

P.S. Yes, all are mine except Object-Oriented Design Heuristics and C# in a Nutshell which are my employers.

tech/books | 27 Sep 2004 | #

michaeldavies.org upgraded

michaeldavies.org has moved from www to bree.

www, a Cyrix 686 120Mhz (120.01 bogomips) with 64Mb RAM and 6Gb of disk, has certainly earned retirement.

meta | 27 Sep 2004 | #