Lockhart's Lament

A rather clever analogy :-) http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

Mac OS X Keyboard tips

iOS March Meetup
with The Auckland iOS Meetup

From John Ballinger:
http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/xcode-4-s-less-obvious-shortcuts
http://paul-samuels.com/blog/2012/07/26/xcode-conditional-break-points/
https://github.com/mattt/Xcode-Snippets
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html

From Peter Asquith:
http://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/ This thing is excellent! I've installed it on my Mac, works like a charm. Only weirdness is that it sometimes seems to appear unbidden... perhaps that is my clothing impinging on the front of the trackpad though? (High humidity here)

Syntax-Higlighted Code in Blogger - Alex Gorbatchev

This is a lot less tedious to use than manually converting and pasting into a blog post.

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

Code to Syntax-Higlighted HTML

This seems to work reasonably well:

http://tohtml.com

It'll Auto-identify the language, or you can select it yourself.

You can choose from several colour-scheme styles.

More Ass-Kicking...

This guy isn't pulling punches (or throwing pumpkins)... But he's right.

"Fact: college is a waste, but we haven't yet hit that point in society where we can bypass it. So we have to pass through another generation of massive college debt. How to pull in the suckers in? Answer: these articles."

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stamps.html

Geek Mind-Over-Matter: Bush Coding (Sam McEwan)

This is classic - Well done, Sam! :-)

For those interested, here's (a class-ified version of) Sam's pain-fuelled Magnum Opus:

public class BushCoding {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("This really hurts!");
    }

}

Updated GIT Talk on Vimeo by Randal Schwartz

Thanks to Randal himself, for pointing out that there is an updated version of his GIT talk on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/35778382

systemd

1. cgroups.txt http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
2. Original Design Document http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
3. Interface Stability Promise http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise 4. XDG Base Directory specification http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html 5. If run inside a Linux container these arguments may be passed as command line arguments to systemd itself, next to any of the command line options listed in the Options section above.
If run outside of Linux containers, these arguments are parsed from /proc/cmdline instead.

Fedora Rawhide Release guidelines

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide

Slackware Linux links

More than just Slackware! ... Eclectic list of some useful Linux and other programming links... dunno how fresh or otherwise, YMMV. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-Links#.22.27.27.27Slackware_LQ_Suggestions_Links.21.27.27.27.22

Re. "Can you afford to not know Git any longer?"

Re. http://www.bluetrainsoftware.com/2012/03/can-you-afford-to-not-know-git-any.html
Well said.
The videos (longish at an hour each or so, worthwhile IMO) of Google Talks by Linus Torvalds and Randal L. Schwartz are great for explaining the rationale behind GIT and its development.
They may even provide sufficient motivation for people to dive in. Pushed me over the edge ;-)

How to Google Search - Infographic (Mashable)

http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

Five things you should stop doing... Dorie Clark (HBR)

Thought-provoking shortlist of unproductive things to cut out.

A couple of my Web Pet Peeves...

Grrr! ...

1) Sites that show precisely nothing until you unblock JavaScript - I'm looking at you, http://www.attitudeiseverything.com/ !

2) Links that when middle-clicked (Linux), hijack the current page rather than opening a new one. If I *wanted* to lose the current page, I would have left-clicked - Duhhh!

Anyone else annoyed by these behaviours? - Comments please!

10 Questions that create success -- Geoffrey James (inc.com)

These actually make you think...
http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/10-questions-that-create-success.html?nav=next

MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course

(Via BBC UK):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968

Annoying Colleagues and How to Manage Them -- inc.com's Geoffrey James

See anyone you know in here? ... Or perhaps yourself? (I do :) )
http://www.inc.com/ss/geoffrey-james/annoying-colleagues-and-how-to-manage?slide=0

Clojure and Android -- Daniel Solano Gomez

http://blip.tv/clojure/daniel-solano-g%C3%B3mez-clojure-and-android-5953832

Max's Bucket List -- EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4236043/Ten-things-I-want-to-do-before-I-die-?cid=NL_MCU&Ecosystem=microcontroller-mcu

Spookily Realistic Skin Rendering (SSS) -- Jorge Jimenez

SSS == Separable Subsurface Scattering
Jorge Jimenez
Needs lots of grunt to render quickly.
Stunning results though!
http://www.iryoku.com/separable-sss-released