Category Archives: Science

John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

Some small but use­ful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in par­tic­u­lar is useful.

December 14, 2011 – 12:05 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | Comments Off

BBC News — Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online

One of the geniuses of all time.

December 13, 2011 – 11:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Chrome Developer Tools

Paul Irish shows off some of the fanci­ness that Google has added to Chrome for developers.

December 7, 2011 – 12:28 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks

Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suf­fer the same secu­rity holes.

December 6, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?

Pretty much exactly my answer when some­one asks about pirat­ing software.

November 25, 2011 – 11:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | Comments Off

The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey

Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and peo­ple who read it) a lit­tle bit about your­self and every­one else who makes websites.

November 16, 2011 – 12:54 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer

I posted about this on Twit­ter, but it’s still a lit­tle astonding.

November 16, 2011 – 12:45 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off