Marshall's Weblog

Paul Graham has written an interesting article about Great Hackers. It covers topic such as the popularity of programming languages, open source tools, design, workplace environment
Some quotes that I like:
. A great programmer might be ten or a hundred times as productive as an ordinary one, but he’ll consider himself lucky to get paid [...]

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After hearing about Google being down because of the latest variant of the MyDoom virus, I decided to test to see if they were still down. Out of all the random words that I could type in, i used search engine. To my surprise, Google was not the number one hit!
Here is the top 5 [...]

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Nautilus has a few shortcuts that you can type into the location bar. The most common ones are burn:/// and fonts:///. But did you know that there are a few more?
computer:///
This will open the Computer view. It is basically like the default My Computer screen in Windows. You will see various devices connected to your [...]

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This really brightened a rainy Wednesday morning. Looks like Lindows/Linspire is gearing up on the marketing edge. It is probable a nice distribution but I don’t think that I would switch from Gentoo.

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I needed to search a VB6 project for instances of a pattern which signifies a data access call. Time to call upon our trusty GNU tools thanks to cygwin.
call DataAccess(True, Conn, 120, “sp_SelectSomeData”, Parameter1, Parameter2…)
Say I have a bunch of calls like this one scattered about multiple code documents and I want to know [...]

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This weekend was almost unexciting. I spent some time reading by the lake, but it was really breazy and I started to get annoyed so I went back home. It is really nice living so close to the lake and I really need to utilize it more. Rob and I went to the Port Washington [...]

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Sh1ft.org organized a photographic scavender hunt

26 Things is a fun photographic game – no winners list, no prizes handed out. On a given date, 26 items are posted on the website and participants set out to photograph each item in their own interpretation.
It sounds like fun. Time to bust out my camera and start experimenting [...]

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