MLP: software development fun
Junio Hamano: Git User's Survey 2012 edition. You have already taken this, right? (Bonus links: Junio C Hamano: Git 1.8.0-rc0 Junio C Hamano: Fun with running textconv)
Drupal and NoSQL: My (not so) secret agenda for Drupal 8 Drupal 8 and MongoDB update #1
Mark Dominus is mad, I tell you, mad! (But some of these Git tricks, used sparingly, could be really useful.) My Git Habits and Rewriting published history in Git
Jessamyn Smith: Everything
I wish I’d known about git... If you know
another version control system, do your best to
forget the names of commands and the association of
functionality with commands
Ubuntu developers: Sebastian Kügler: Best practises for writing defensive publications
Google Authenticator FTW: Another layer of security for your Dropbox account, Dropbox and Time-based One Time Passwords...
Two interesting projects at Sony: Sony opens up the Dynamic Android Sensor HAL (DASH) – developers can contribute [open source] and BacklogTool – new open source tool for backlog management from Sony.
Allen Gannett: Enterprise
software begins its beautification, where design
was once an afterthought. While tools
such as SharePoint hold market share despite being
clunky and obtuse, a startling shift has occurred
in the last two years. We are beginning to see
the rise of truly usable—and increasingly,
beautiful—enterprise software.
JessiTRON: Git:
The Good Parts - history is written by the
victors. Software is built feature by feature,
fix by fix. This is what you want to see when you
look back at history.
Linus Torvalds on "clean history" (via What The Web?!)
Linux
on the (consumer) Desktop My punch-line is
that the Linux Desktop faces a huge and multi-factored
ecosystem challenge, there is no single simple issue
to fix.
Jonathan Corbet: Bazaar on
the slow track. Bazaar, as a project, may not
be dead, but it shows signs of going into a sort of
maintenance mode.
Dave Winer: Manifesto:
Un-Web 2.0. (via Phil
Windley's Technometria) In Un-Web 2.0 you
get full control of your data, and the services just
get pointers to it, or copies of it. The originals
live with you. Pointers are much preferable to copies
because then you can keep updating the content after
it has been incorporated in someone else's content
tree.
Viljami Salminen at Smashing Magazine: Establishing an open device lab. (Watch this space...we need one of these in Alameda.)
Sean McArthur: Persona
Beta 1. [W]e hope to eventually remove ourselves
from it all.
Kees Cook: Link
restrictions released in Linux 3.6. an entire
class of vulnerability just goes away.
Steve Losh on keyboard choices: A Modern Space Cadet
NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition