Tech Stuff

Bash is fun. It's a little weird, but it's fun. I've been reading the Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible which I highly recommend. I also...
I recently suffered a UDP flood attack on my little virtual private server (VPS) and thought I'd describe the steps I went through to discover and...
It's Androids turn this time. Here's a list of must-have Android Apps for my Jelly Bean update: 1) It bugs the hell out of me that there isn't a...
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to lead a study that examined the challenges faced by media organizations in managing digital content - in...
Here's a short post on getting started with Nokogiri - a Ruby gem that wraps libxml. I'm writing this because well, the docs at http://nokogiri.org/...
Here's a solution to a problem I was trying to solve in Ruby. I wanted to create a 23 bit data structure, that would hold three values. A 14 bit...
I’ve toyed with a few titles for this post, including - ‘My Kingdom for a Backslash’, or ‘Fish Don’t Know They’re in Water’. In the end I felt ‘The...
This link to Macworld was sent to me by a colleague - "iPhone 4S: Why no NFC chip?". I think it's another excellent example of editorial polyfiller....
Brilliant - a must watch for all systems people and managers...