Do you ever get tired of typing “sudo” into your command line? It usually goes something like this: mkdir geek permission denied sudo mkdir geek It’s not that it is hard to type out “sudo”, but it’s not very fun. Continue reading
Today, we finished sealing up the greenhouse! Now we’ll be able to keep some plants growing during the winter and have a place to start seeds in early spring. So, you might be wondering what this has to do with Continue reading
Update (10-25-2012): ESO has put the zoomable image back on their servers. Here it is: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1242a/zoomable/ ESO, the European Southern Observatory, has offered up a 9-gigapixel image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The image features over 80 million Continue reading
jQuery Scroll Path is a customizable scrolling plugin for jQuery. It uses the HTML5 canvas to draw arcs and lines that define custom scroll paths. The code is available on GitHub and is easily customized. Here’s the gist of Continue reading
Well, I can’t believe it, but my son turned 4 today! It is hard to believe how quickly time flies! I wanted to share this picture of him learning PHP with all of you. HAHA!
If you pay attention to the news at all, then it is clear that the free and open internet might soon be a thing of the past. It seems like every week there’s news about a country blocking its citizens Continue reading
With the popularity of the last Computer Science History story about Alan Turing, we decided to take a closer look at another fascinating story. Ada Augusta Byron (Ada Lovelace) was born on December 10, 1815. I know what you’re thinking: Continue reading
On June 23, 1912, the future of computer technology came screaming into the world. Alan Turing. The father of modern computer science. As a boy, he attended a respected day school where his teachers criticized his lack of “well-rounded” interests. Continue reading
In order to properly install Linux on your lawnmower, you must first compile your lawnmower from source. I love Linux. I really do. I love Ubuntu and Slackware…I love Fedora and Suse…I love Red Hat and Debian…that being said, I Continue reading
Have you ever used the Google Maps API? If so, I’m willing to bet that you passed a version parameter in order to tell it which version of the API you were going to use. This is very handy! It Continue reading