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See Joel On Software: The Duct Tape Programmer : he lauds the programmer who gets stuff done with "duct tape and WD-40". Here...

Situation The USPS ZIP codes have a multi-part structure. The first three digits are a prefix that defines a sectional center facility. The...

The Situation A co-worker has mistakenly cloned a directory tree rather than link to it. Then they made some number of changes to files in ...

Good stuff in ComputerWorld: Partnerships can Go Too Far . "Consider vendor innovation. As companies become large and entrenched, they ...

Upgraded a VM to Fedora 11 recently. This -- it turns out -- comes with Python 2.6 installed. It is, however, an incomplete build. To do an...

I cannot believe that people still consider top-down, uni-dimensional, taxonomic hierarchies useful. This Stack Overflow question ( REST: H...

See this in Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/11/hairy-type.html They're talking about NodeBox , something I'd never he...