#bash (unix shell)

I been using git for a while and I messed up a few times, especially on what branch I’m on and merging branches. The other day, I had checked out a branch and did some changes to my code, when I was done I wanted to merge the changes to the master. (more…)

Oracle vs Google case threatens foundations of software design

Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University –The Java programming language, which has just turned 20 years old, provides developers with a means to write code that is independent of the hardware it runs on: “write once, run anywhere”.

But, ironically, while Java was intended to make programmers’ lives easier, the court casebetween Oracle, Java’s owner, and Google over Google’s use of Java as the…

My philosophy regarding the benefits of hacking

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. cc-by lemasney First, a personal definition of hacking: Hacking is the art of understanding something in a complete way, mastering it, for the sake of changing it to meet a need. Usually the result of hacking is innovations not introduced or intended in the original designs. Open source systems promote and benefit from…