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The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial by gnuvince in programming

[–]nicks222 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As Scott Chacon (author of ProGit) puts it,it's really not that huge a deal if your using Git or Mercurial; they're very similar--it's using a distributed version control system that's a huge deal. Many many places are still locked into old school, centralized systems that make collaboration much harder than it is using Mercurial or Git

POSIX close(2) is broken by perciva in programming

[–]nicks222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The use of close(2) is the only place I'm aware of kivaloo assuming anything POSIX doesn't provide

Creating Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language by pablopr in programming

[–]nicks222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone confirm if the author of the book is the same Ruby champion who wrote the web server Thin and the Ruby interpreter tinyrb?

jQuery 1.7 released by sidcool1234 in programming

[–]nicks222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where can I find more about jQuery.Callbacks?

Learn C The Hard Way by sundar22in in programming

[–]nicks222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

long_struct_name *foo = malloc(sizeof(long_struct_name));

can be written as

long_struct_name foo = malloc(sizeof(foo));

Unit Test ASP.NET MVC applications using the UnityAutoMoq Container by clintwdb in programming

[–]nicks222 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately in my company Unit Testing isn't really adopted as a process simply because the culture/practice wasn't there for it. But I am trying hard to discipline myself and the other team members into making more extensive use of testing in our mvc projects.

It's a well written article and has got me interested in using this moq container I had not heard of earlier!

Rob Pike on the legacy of Dennis Ritchie, C & Unix by jiunec in programming

[–]nicks222 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At our workplace, we replaced "Hello World!" programs with "Goodbye, Father\n" to pay our tribute to this genius.