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Forking the book

As one of the first mass produced industrial artifacts the book remains a solid cultural signifier of stability. That aura is pretty strong and attractive and makes it pretty hard to think about books as being anything other than static …

Four short links: 16 January 2013

Things Users Don’t Care About (Pete Warden) — every day we relearn these lessons. How great it will be once all their friends are on it. Tracer FIRE 5 — online workshop and game that teaches network security. [A] week-long …

New school C

Choosing a programming language for that project you’re working on is a fairly straightforward decision: it needs to be fast, easy to use, and it must come with enough bells and whistles to keep you from re-inventing the wheel every …

Four short links: 19 November 2012

Wing Man — Mac app for source control management with git, implements workflow rather than simply being a wrapper for git commandlines. CodeKit — Mac app for web developers, automates (invisibly, thanks to watching filesystem changes) much of the web …

Inside GitHub’s role in community-building and other open source advances

In this video interview, Matthew McCullough of GitHub discusses what they’ve learned over time as they grow and watch projects develop there. Highlights from the full video interview include: How GitHub builds on Git’s strengths to allow more people to …

Jon Loeliger offers some practices to use with Git

After finishing the second edition of "Version Control with Git," author Jon Loeliger talked to O'Reilly editor Andy Oram about how to use Git effectively as changes to code pile up.

Developer Week in Review: Google I/O's ticket window open and shuts in record time

Google I/O registration was there and gone so fast you might have missed it if you blinked, Microsoft is sharing more of its code Apache-style, and the leading compiler package in the world celebrates a milestone.

Developer Week in Review: Mobile's embedded irony

Microsoft profits from Google's toils, why you shouldn't put older developers out to pasture, and a new source control system enters the fray.

Four short links: 4 July 2011

Let There Be Smite (Pippin Barr) -- simple diversion for the 4th of July. It won't be easy for God to save America. (via Pippin's blog) Basel Wear -- to answer the question I know was burning on your lips: "what *did* the Swiss wear in 1634?" Impressively detailed pictures from a 1634 book that is now online. One...

Four short links: 21 April 2011

Rubular -- a way to write and test regular expressions interactively. Very cool. (via Adam Fields) gitx -- OSX ui for git. (via Marc Hedlund) Open Source Critical to Competition (Simon Phipps) -- DOJ and German Federal Cartel Office see danger for open source in Novell's patents being acquired by a consortium of Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, and EMC (fancy!)...

Developer Week in Review

Coming up on the Week in Review: Revolt of the App Store developers, Ubuntu's innocence lost, and a report we swear you'll like.

Four short links: 7 February 2011

UK Internet Entrepreneurs (Guardian) -- two things stood out for me. (1) A startup focused on 3d printing better dolls for boys and girls. (2) it seems easier to the government to start something new and impose its own vision than it is to understand and integrate with what already exists. TreeSaver.js -- MIT/GPLv2-licensed JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style...

Four Short Links: 2 February 2011

Seven Foundational Visualization Papers -- seven classics in the field that are cited and useful again and again. Git Immersion -- a "walking tour" of Git inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it. Cf Learn Python the Hard Way or even NASA's Planet Makeover. We'll see more and more tutorials that require participation...

Four short links: 30 November 2010

libgit2 -- a linkable git library. Ruby and Python bindings. Open Data: How Not to Cock It Up -- Tom Steinberg lays it out. Algorithm and Crowd are Not Enough -- My point isn’t that Google, Netflix, Amazon, Yelp or any of the others are doomed. But I do think there’s an opportunity brewing for entrepreneurs, websites and companies...

Four short links: 8 November 2010

xkcd 576 Made Real -- a Kiwi coder used the API to the local equivalent of eBay to build a real-life version of xkcd cartoon 576. You can follow its daily purchases on Twitter. Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention (Dominus) -- slides to a talk Mark Jason Dominus gave to the Philadelphia Linux User Group. I like to see informed...

Four short links: 16 June 2010

So You Want to Be A Consultant -- absolutely spot-on tips for understanding the true business of a consultant. (via Hacker News) BBYIDX -- a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby, [...] the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website. The Git Parable -- The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation...

Intro To Git

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Intro To Git. Everywhere you look...

Concept Management

Distributed version control systems have brought up some pretty important questions. A DVCS adds a good deal of complexity to an already complicated system. Source control is rather sticky business as it not only deals with complex content, but the...

Git Repositories now offered by ProjectLocker

ProjectLocker.com now offers Git hosting as well as SVN

Web 2.0 Expo SF Launchpad: Six New Startup Stars

This year's Launchpad at Web 2.0 Expo SF features six new Web 2.0 startups that have captured our interest and attention: Acquia Triggit Chirp Interactive Oortle JobScore TradeVibes Here's a brief description of each of these cool new companies: Acquia is an open source software company providing products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. At Acquia,...