Notice: This post was motivated by another post I read over at Aaron Seigo’s blog entitled A case for distributed version control.
I love Subversion. It is a significant improvement over CVS and ever since Sourceforge began supporting it I’ve been able to migrate all my open source stuff off my local server and onto somewhere [...]

In the lead up to nerd camp next month I have been reading Robert Love’s Linux Kernel Development. While my C-foo isn’t really up to scratch, getting an insight into the different world that exists in the kernel has been fun and exciting. It has certainly fulfilled its purpose in helping me to get my [...]

Some people love Java Generics, others hate them. Like most people, I was hesitant to accept them at first. However, with more and more use they have grown on me to the point that they are a central part of the way I use Java. While most people are comfortable with the simple use cases [...]

After much pain, I’ve finally managed to get Ubuntu Edgy installed on my laptop under Parallels. However, despite making it this far, I am as yet able to get it to run in the native resolution of 1440×900. It seems no matter what I try, Xorg always falls back to a 4:3 resolution. If anyone [...]

Throughout the entirety of my brief Linux life (its really only been about 4 years now), there has only ever been one distribution that could satisfy me; Gentoo. While installation involved a considerable investment of time and brain cells, after a few trips around the merry-go-round it became like second nature.
A couple of years ago, [...]