‘So you’re organising a hack day or hackathon? Here are some basic requirements to make your event a success, and avoid the common pitfalls that could otherwise ruin it.’

‘Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.’

Someone else who, like me, was frustrated developing under OS X and who switched to Linux.

‘Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image.’

‘NEVER ask permission to do your job correctly.’

‘a simple build tool for Scala projects that aims to do the basics well.’

Reducing transaction cost in agile projects.

So true. ‘The developers I know would rather rip up $50 bills, long sequences of them, than do something that, in their best judgment, is against the best interests of the software and its users.’

Everyone wants to claim to be Agile, whether they are or not.

A fixed-width sans font designed for programmers.

Interesting.

Good ideas in here.

Calling shenanigans on a bullshit phrase.