Even though I've been using Emacs for years, I still have trouble remembering a lot of the key combinations for commands that I don't use all the time (e.g.: killing and yanking rectangles, bookmarks, etc.). I think Lotus 123 for...
A friend of mine pointed me to this FLOSS Weekly podcast on the git version control system. Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz talk with git maintainer Junio Hamano about the benefits of distributed version control and git in...
One of the great things about working at VMware is that they have a shuttle that takes me from a light rail station 10 minutes from my house to work. Aside from savings lots of money on gas, this gives me a good chunk of time to...
Cygwin uses a different path scheme than Windows. If you use a Cygwin shell with Cygwin programs, then everything works well. But if you use a Cygwin shell as your default shell (which I do, because face it, cmd.exe sucks) and...
Interesting to see that Scheme is moving forward, though not everyone is totally happy with the direction. Arto Bendiken: R5.97RS Scheme Considered Harmful...