I really don’t even know if I can explain this thing. Something about hunting down your alter ego. God knows I have revealed “my hidden” self more times than I would like to admit.

I am well aware of the fact that many of you have already read this collection of essays from ESR (Eric S. Raymond), but it is always good to remind people about it and to show people who haven’t had the opportunity to come across this great work. The book is definitely recommended for easier [...]

Because I am sure there is more than one person who wondered if they could run multiple websites on a single IP address. I know I have, but of course I knew about this stuff already seeing how I was the one who advised the Apache Group on how they should implement it. Really. They [...]

Tired of trying to figure out how to determine if a string is an URL or not? Well this site shows you how to implement a regex for figuring out such things.

Finally an explanation of those funny little messages showing up on my screen when I turn the computer on.

In part four of this series of interviews with Bjarne Stroustup (C++ fame) he discusses his methodology for coding which unsurprisingly he mentions that he is not over concerned with huge planning methodologies. A true hacker.

Almost a year old, but gives some good ideas about how you would go about building your own media box. Linux never stops.
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I really need to set something like this up at home. So much important information that I lay in the hands of the computer gods to do with it what they will.

I guess today is COBOL day. This wonderful university has been kind enough to publish some useful resources and exercises to help us all better ourselves at COBOL.

Because you never know when that OOP knowledge willcome in handy while you slaving away on code made in the 70’s on a mainframe from 1982. If you want to make some good money in the near future learn some COBOL.

OSNews has posted a review of theKompany’s new Python IDE, BlackAdder. Personally, I am waiting till they re-implement Ruby support.

Milbertus discusses his adventures with the new Subversion and surprisingly finds that it works well with Windows. I once tried to get a CVS server started. I will miss that poor box.

An interesting discussion concerning what are 5 must read books for every student. Warning though, after reading the thread I found that I had a lot of reading to catch up on.

IT Conversations has now added transcripts to some of their conversations. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out this great resource for anyone interested in technology.

Should be considered the definitive list of linux resources. Prepare your bookmarks.

If you wish to learn Ruby, who better to teach you than the Pragmatic Programmers? These guys know their stuff and always give useful tips on how to program. This book can be found in hardcover (although it is old and out of print I believe) and if you haven’t read it already check out [...]