For the last 4 months I’ve been working with Packt Publishing on a book about Redmine plugin extension and development. Although it likely won’t be ready until February 2014, the book is now ava...

In an effort to centralize some articles about how some classic games were devloped, I’ve collected the various parts of Patrick Wyatt’s blog series about the initial development of Warcraft. Plea...

[NOTE: The method described below should still work, but it’s much easier to just use a Heroku buildpack (see this post for details)] I manage my open source and contract development projects usin...

The ScummVM project recently added support for Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths. The original developer, Giovanni Bajo appeared on the scummvm-devel mailing list and offered some insi...

UPDATE For Linux Mint 16, the hotCorner settings have been moved to /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/hotCorner.js. I use Synergy on all my computers to share a common mouse and keyboard, but I’ve found t...

This is pretty much a transcription of http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo, which is just such a good article I wanted to keep a copy for reference. How does sudo work? The way that Ubuntu h...

A couple projects I work on use MongoDB as the database, and I’m generally not satisfied to use the (often outdated) version that ships with Ubuntu. As a result, I wrote this script to automate fe...

My Ruby workflow as of late has almost always contained Git for version control, and Pry for debugging. Although it’s extremely convenient during development to add a quick breakpoint using bindin...

As much as I enjoy Ubuntu, I haven’t warmed to their Unity desktop. I personally find it’s too similar to OS X, I don’t really like the launcher with larger icons, the global menu, the shifted wind...

I spend a lot of time working in a terminal, and I like to spend that time listening to music. Since I work primarily in Linux, I was hoping there would be an easy way to merge these two activities...