(Technical) Whimsical Writings of the Web
The Future of Linux UI Scares Me
I don’t think I have mentioned that I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora.
Code Reviews
Ever since I’ve read the book “Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review” a couple of years ago, I was cottoned onto the idea that code reviews are good things to have.
Compiling Ruby 1.9 for Mac OSX 10.4
This article contains specifics for installing Ruby on PowerPC MacOSX 10.
Why you should Blame your Tools, sometimes.
As software developers, we would all wish to have 3rd party libraries that works magically immediately after installation.
How to build a Debian Package for GDB
I’ve resisted titling this post as ‘building an Ubuntu package’ even though I’m building it for Ubuntu - technically it’s more proper to call it a Debian package given its lineage.
GDB 7.0 Is Out!
Read the announcement here. It’s actually the pre-release version, nevertheless it’s quite stable.
Bug Hunting with Revision Control using Mercurial
My impression through reading other software developers' blogs is that, when presented a choice of distributed revision control, there seem to be a majority preference for Git over Mercurial.
Java is not the JVM
For many IT people, it sounds funny to assert that the Java language has nothing to with the JVM itself.