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I recently did some digging in the Subversion source code to find out answers to precedence questions that remained after re-reading the documentation for Subversion’s per-directory permission files (popularly referred to as ACLs). At work, this helped us a lot with ensuring our new graphical UI for permissions (an excellent tool developed by Mark George) […]

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is […]

Chances are most professional programmers will have to deal with software internationalization at some stage in their careers. Internationalization and localization of software are two sides of the same thing: Localizing an application is customizing it’s language, currency, sort orders, measurement systems, and more for a particular group’s needs. Typically this group is “people of a particular country” but other […]

Autotools are the set of GNU tools that configure their source packages for a particular computer system. If you have ever compiled a program using “configure” followed by “make” commands then chances are you have already used the output of Autotools.

This tutorial runs you through the basics of how to use Autotools.

This being the last Thursday before Christmas, it’s time to slack off a little. So I’m writing about a program that does pretty diagrams of “mind maps” that you can play with on your last day at work. It’ll be fun and might even be productive.