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How grep got its name

thoughtbot Blog2010186 points50 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details

How did grep get its name? This all starts back with ed, the original unix...

What's wrong with 1975 programming

Varnish Cache2010293 points115 commentscited by 4Software Engineering details

Rails 3.0: Release candidate

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How Digg does continuous deployment

HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page

Varnish guy's hatred for autoconf

Varnish Cache2010137 points74 commentsSoftware Engineering details

How to write a filesystem in 50 lines of code

The Most Important Algorithms

RISC Linz2010187 points48 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Python 2.7 released

Python.org2010152 points40 commentsSoftware Engineering details

The official home of the Python Programming Language

Why Enterprise Software Sucks

Khoi, who’s consistently one of the best writers on the web, recently took a swipe at enterprise software. Who can blame him? We agree. If you work at a big company and you’ve ever had to do something that should be simple, like file an expense report, make changes to your salary withholdi…

Will the real programmers please stand up?

RethinkDB Blog2010112 points172 commentscited by 4Career & Management details

Introducing Google Command line Tool

Google Open Source Blog2010390 points51 commentsTools & Productivity details

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.

How does one get off Haskell?

Haskell.org2010105 points66 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Beating Binary Search

Rethinking Rails 3 Controllers and Routes - PeepCode Blog

PeepCode Blog2010167 points45 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.

Twitter Announces "Snowflake" for Unique Tweet IDs

PylonsHQ - Blog - Pylons 1.0 Released

Pylons201080 points23 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Announcing Clojure/core

Clojure Blog2010107 points31 commentsSoftware Engineering details

I'm happy to announce Clojure/core , a joint endeavor between myself and Relevance, Inc. Clojure/core is a specialized technical practice w...

It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests

MSDN Blogs2010105 points47 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Benchmark of PyPy, Unladen S., Jython, CPython, Psyco in Rastrigin optimization

Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 Released

How Ninite.com (YC W08) was named by a program -- code included

Clang++ Builds Boost

Boost is a collection of open-source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries that's well-known for having many good utility components for C++ programmers. It's also well-known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques, such as extensive template and preprocessor metaprogramming, that have pushed many C++ compilers beyond their…

Reddit releases fully functional VM with their source code

Reddit Blog201086 points49 commentsOpen Source details

Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.

How Scribd's HTML document reader works (part 1)

Django 1.2 released

Django Weblog2010212 points46 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Posted by James Bennett on May 17, 2010

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and LLVM

If you read the LLVM 2.7 release notes carefully you would have noticed that one of the new external users is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). As the author of the LLVM backend for GHC, I have been invited to write a post detailing the design of the backend and my experiences with using LLVM.

Django 1.2 final out on Monday

Django Weblog201076 points53 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Posted by James Bennett on May 15, 2010

Rubinius 1.0 (Fabius) Released

Rubinius Blog2010171 points47 commentsProgramming Languages details