Joel Spolsky just announced the launch of Stack Overflow, which is free a question and answer site for programmers. As one of those that has tried to search for programming questions on google, only to get mostly useless answers most of the time (and half of them behind some stupid pay gate), this sounds like a totally awesome idea. (And you should read Joel's blog post, it does a much better job introducing the site than I.)
Often, I find myself wanting to edit a file that is owned by root, and many times in these instances, I already have opened the file in vim for reading. It is rather annoying to have to close the file in vim and run a new vim with sudo in order to edit the file. Thanks to a recent post to the vim-mac mailing list, I found the sudo vim plugin.
Charles Oliver Nutter explains the whole InvokeDynamic thing in the JVM (And why it's really cool), in a way that those of us that aren't elite JVM hackers will understand. Awesome stuff.
It's coming up again, and registration is now open. You should be able to use the code DKV41883 to get free registration. We'll see if this year they have something more interesting to me than the iPhone lovefest. (New Macs, perhaps?)
Check it out: Good Old Games.
Hat tip to ArsTechnica
for pointing it out. It's a site that will allow you to grab old school
PC games for cheap: Fallout 2 for $6?! I never got the change to play
Fallout or Fallout 2, since my computer wasn't strong enough way back
when. It would be awesome to be able to play them now. And I'm sure
I'll find other things to play there as well. (Oh, and did I mention
that there's no DRM? =)
This is extra awesome. I think I need to write a little app so I can get this data on my phone. (Found via friendfeed) Now if only the contractor doing the Translink stuff would stop being incompetent and finish up so I can use my Translink card on BART sometime this century.
I always forget to do advance notice on these things. But I'm going. Are you?
Mara and Emma visited me yesterday in the office, and Emma decided that this was the perfect opportunity to really start walking on her own. We managed to capture some of her walking on video with my digital camera, which is decidedly better quality than my cameraphone.
And you know you want to do
it with me! It'll be fun, and it's totally chill and
non-competitive, and it's only $10! Any takers?
non-competitive, and it's only $10! Any takers?