I recently read “Seven Languages in Seven Week” [Pragmatic, Bruce Tate, 2010], and found it very interesting. This is not a book about spoken languages, but computer languages.

As someone who has worked mostly with PHP, JavaScript and Java in my professional career over the last ten years, it is both refreshing and needed to see alternative programming languages and paradigms...

Onward through the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time list from 50-26th, their are some very strong albums here.

I have been continuing through the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time list at a steady pace. Here are my comments on numbers 75-51...

I am going through the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time list. I am cheating a bit by starting at 100 and working my way to number one.

Even if you do not agree with the RS rankings or my numeric grades below, it is a fun list because it exposes you to some albums that might be outside of your usual listening genre that are worth a listen. I am up to number 74 on the list and these are my findings so far...

This is the second post of a five part series aimed at development productivity. The subjects covered in the series will be:

1. Basic linux commands
2. "dot" file configurations
3. SSH, Networking commands
4. PHP and git command options and shortcuts
5. Process and disk monitoring

This part deals with Unix/Linux configuration files that start with a ".".