What are these processes in Activity Monitor on my Mac?

"Thanks" to closeness of Apple, it is pretty hard to get full understanding about processes running on your Mac. Hopefully this site will help you understand Mac OS X better.

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues for whom she is partially responsible. In this essay I attempt to summarize as concisely as possible those things that I wish someone had explained to me when I was twenty-one.

This is very subjective and, therefore, this essay is doomed to be personal and somewhat opinionated. I confine myself to problems that a programmer is very likely to have to face in her work. Many of these problems and their solutions are so general to the human condition that I will probably seem preachy. I hope in spite of this that this essay will be useful.

Computer programming is taught in courses. The excellent books: The Pragmatic Programmer [Prag99], Code Complete [CodeC93], Rapid Development [RDev96], and Extreme Programming Explained [XP99] all teach computer programming and the larger issues of being a good programmer. The essays of Paul Graham[PGSite] and Eric Raymond[Hacker] should certainly be read before or along with this article. This essay differs from those excellent works by emphasizing social problems and comprehensively summarizing the entire set of necessary skills as I see them.

In this essay the term boss to refer to whomever gives you projects to do. I use the words business, company, and tribe, synonymously except that business connotes moneymaking, company connotes the modern workplace and tribe is generally the people you share loyalty with.

Welcome to the tribe.

RFCs are documents produced by The Internet Engineering Task Force, and many are official standards for various Internet protocols. This site indexes and formats these documents for easier finding & viewing.

The difference between .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() is not always apparent. Having a clear understanding of all the differences, though, will help us write more concise code and prevent bugs from popping up in our interactive applications.

You probably know all about rolling your own plugins for jQuery. But did you know that some core jQuery functions have their own "plugin API" called "hooks"?

jQuery provides an API to hook into calls to the methods .attr(), .prop(), .val() and .css(). Fiddling with Sizzle, jQuery's selector-engine, you can even roll your own pseudo-class-selectors such as $('div:is-awesome') or $('div:is-it(awesome enough)'). Let's see what we can (ab)use these, mostly undocumented features for.

I know that Douglas Crockford and many others will disagree with this, but from my point of view, there are only three “bad” parts to javascript.

How does this work?
How does prototypical inheritance work?
Named Function Expression? Function Declaration? Hoisting?

In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. Full article at Wikipedia.

Double-click on or move the original map to set a marker on a desired location. The antipode map will automatically show it's antipodal location.

Welcome to CPU DB, a complete database of processors for researchers and hobbyists alike.

You can browse the processor database by manufacturer, processor family, code name, or microarchitecture using the menu above. Or download our data and use it in your research.

vim knowledge tabularized - search vim keys, options and more with great precision.

I decided to look into valid property names in JavaScript. When do they need to be quoted? When can the quotes be omitted? And in which cases can dot notation be used instead of bracket notation to get or set a property based on its name?

Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.

As single page apps and large scale javascript applications become more prominent on the web, useful resources for those developers who are jumping the ship are crucial.

This is a collection of JavaScript wizardry that can shave bytes off of your code. It's mainly intended as a reference for those creating entries for 140byt.es. Feel free to add your own or send any feedback to @140bytes.

Developers these days are spoiled with choice when it comes to selecting an MVC framework for structuring and organizing JavaScript web apps. Backbone, Spine, Ember.js (SproutCore 2.0), JavaScriptMVC..the list of new and stable solutions goes on and on, but just how do you decide on which to use in a sea of so many options?.

To help solve this problem, I created TodoMVC - a project which offers the same Todo application implemented using MVC concepts in most of the popular JavaScript MVC frameworks of today. Solutions look and feel the same, have a common simple feature-set and make it easy for you to compare the syntax and structure of different frameworks so you can select the one you feel the most comfortable with.

Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are.

Open Advice is a knowledge collection from a wide variety of Free Software projects. It answers the question what 42 prominent contributors would have liked to know when they started so you can get a head-start no matter how and where you contribute.

The Linux kernel exposes a wealth of information through the proc special filesystem. It's not hard to find an encyclopedic reference about proc. In this article I'll take a different approach: we'll see how proc tricks can solve a number of real-world problems.

Eat Your World spotlights regional foods and drinks around the world. Local grub, typical fare, indigenous eats—we tell you what they are and where to find ’em when you’re traveling.

Camera Size is a free online digital camera comparison tool. This web application was designed to help you compare one camera's size relative to another camera, and view each camera from different sides. The site is being continuously updated with new camera models, so you can compare the size of older cameras with the latest models.

Non-Designers Type Book

You love web standards. You want to give back to the community. Curious about where to start? We're here to help.

MVC Todo apps for JavaScriptMVC, Ember.js (SproutCore), Backbone.js, Spine.js, YUILibrary, Knockout.js and more

BoltDepot has a great selection of charts used to identify and explain the wide variety of screws, bolts, nuts, washers and other pieces used for building just about every project you can imagine. Wood screws, machine screws, carriage bolts, lag bolts, square heads, torx, ogee washers and more.

There’s even a section about the grade/strength types of the different materials used for the fasteners. Very handy indeed.

With Cheatography you can build and share cheat sheets and quick reference material for your hobbies, home, holidays or even your work.

Vim Recipes is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor.

My mission is to get the electronics hobby back on its feet again, and to educate children and adults about electronics. I intend to do this by writing guides and eventually selling electronic kits; kits that are fun and actually teach what is happening in the circuit. It is my hope that with the help of friends and other people that teravolt.org will become a large organization dedicated to the hobby, and education related to, electronics. I've got my whole life ahead of me to make a positive impact on the world, and to help others do the same.

It will be a non-profit organization, because I am a strong believer in Thomas Edison's philosophy --a belief which states that money is not something to be amassed, instead it is something which is to be used as a tool. Money can be very powerful when it is used, but when it sits in a bank what good does it do?

Have you always wanted to learn how to code but never thought you could? Are you looking to build a foundation for more complex coding? Do you want to challenge your brain in a new way? Then Learn Python the Hard Way is the book for you.

Once you have Windows Search for Windows Vista or Windows XP, you might be wondering how you can be even more efficient when it comes to finding files and e-mail on your PC. Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) can help you do just that. Using AQS, you can quickly define and narrow your searches for even more targeted results.

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