“You are not a Software Engineer. You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges.You grow gardens.You are a Software Gardener.”
“To import bookmarks from Google Chrome, you need to first export your Chrome bookmarks to an HTML file, then import that HTML file to Firefox.”
via Importing bookmarks from Google Chrome | How to | Firefox Support.
Just wanted to take a note of this, since it’s always forgotten.
“Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didnt include with OS X.”
via Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!.
Very useful article about the proc filesystem on Linux.
“The Linux kernel exposes a wealth of information through the proc special filesystem. It’s not hard to find an encyclopedic reference about proc. In this article I’ll take a different approach: we’ll see how proc tricks can solve a number of real-world problems. All of these tricks should work on a recent Linux kernel, though some will fail on older systems like RHEL version 4.”
via Ksplice » Solving problems with proc – System administration and software blog.
“jQuery is a very powerful library, but some of its powerful features are obscure, and unless youve read the jQuery source code, or my new book jQuery Pocket Reference, you may not know about them. This article excerpts that book to describe five useful features of jQuery that you might not know about.”
via 5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery – OReilly Answers.
“I stumbled upon a very strange bug in PHP; this statement sends it into an infinite loop:<?php $d = 2.2250738585072011e-308; ?>The same thing happens if you write the number without scientific notation — 324 decimal places.”
via PHP Hangs On Numeric Value 2.2250738585072011e-308 – Exploring Binary.
Looks like it only affects 32bit PHP.
Response from Rasmus Lerdorf on Twitter.
“As a follow-up to last week’s outage, here is a detailed explanation of what transpired, the root cause, and plans to mitigate this from happening again in the future.”
via Skype – The Big Blog – CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage.
27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft)
via YouTube – 27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft).
“According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down.”
“Skyfishing” with a GoPro HERO POV Camera 400+ Feet Up « Tom Guilmette.
I wonder where to buy the helium here in .NO.