While the UK government’s plans for wider adoption of open source have been uneven in their application, the new beta version of the gov.uk web site should give proprietary software vendors and contractors pause for thought, as it is almost entirely built on or with open source. via The open source behind gov.uk revealed – …
Bootstrap, from Twitter.
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency. via Rust.
This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys. via Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.
Sifteo – Sifteo Cubes.
How to Be Happy at Work | Inc.com.
How Dell Migrated From Suse Linux to Oracle Linux.
Why bother to learn git? * Git is a big improvement over legacy version control systems (more about that later). * Git is growing very rapidly in popularity. * Bottom line: Source code that you need to access and update will be in a git repository, and you’ll save a lot of time and trouble …
Michael Wolfe’s answer to Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? – Quora.
Moose is essentially a language extension for Perl 5 that provides a modern, elegant, fully featured object system. I say “language extension”, but Moose is written in pure Perl, and as you’ll see, its syntax is still normal Perl. You don’t need to patch Perl itself to use Moose; under the hood, it’s just Perl …