If you're interested in the Subversion version control system, you might be interested in this free online book. I've been reading it over the past couple of days and it's been quite interesting. Version Control with Subversion...
The following page talks about the "C10K problem", that is how to get Web servers to scale to the point that they can handle 10,000 concurrent connections. Along the way, there are some interesting tidbits about how to design...
Want an editor for Python that has a little more horsepower than IDLE? Do you want to edit Python code using the Eclipse IDE? You may want to try PyDev. PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython...
I just finished reading Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. A really interesting read. Some of the more interesting things that I picked up: boost::shared_ptr - like auto_ptr on steroids, a very nice...
OK, this isn't actually very short, but it does offer a lot of good advice on a diverse range of topics of interest to programmers and managers of programmers: How to be a programmer - by Robert Read...
OK, I got Eclipse to work on FreeBSD with a bunch of pkg_add voodoo. CDT wouldn't install with pkg_add so I just added http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/new to the update manager in Eclipse and had Eclipse download...