Pro Git. Scott Chacon’s Pro Git book is now available in print, and online under CC license (and, of course, on Github).
Pass on Flash. When your software is installed on just about every PC, I think you need to be more responsible than this:
One security researcher, however, said Adobe’s own bug-tracking database shows that the company has known of the vulnerability for nearly seven months.
The fix is easy. Besides making your browser more secure, disabling “Flash”, will also make many pages load faster and the browser crash less often. On the Mac, try ClickToFlash.
Nutty. Sys-con has been in my killfile for a while for its intrusive ads. I didn’t know, but also wasn’t very surprised, to find out they’re appropriating content. I wasn’t expecting full on racism :
The first article was quickly followed up by a second one, titled Adobe’s User Community, Turkish Spammers and Internet Terrorists: Turks and the Country of Turkey Should Be Blocked From the International Internet User Community (http://internetvideo.sys-con.com/node/1028923) in which they reiterated the libelous comments regarding me from the previous article.
If you hear people, myself included, boycotting sys-con, here’s why.
QotD. Java Spring – or the Biggus Dickus effect:
Looking at the API alone Spring feels like reading a parody on Java enterprise software written by Steve Yegge.
I believe I did … A nosql comic to wrap it up.
