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Remember when people tracked bugs?

I've done some well-known bitching about the halfassed and haphazard way that Open Sores projects have handled their bugs in the past, but man, things have only gotten worse since then. I mean, projects used to actually have bug databases. Boy, those were the days. Failing that, developers used to put their email…

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Racket v5.3.2

_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Core Libraries:: The new `math` library provides functions and data structures for working with numbers and collections of numbers. Functions include non-ele...

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In Love with LÖVE

I’ve been looking for the past year for a suitable programming environment for my two boys (10 & 7) that moves them beyond graphical environments like Scratch and Lego Mindstorms and into the land of real programming (a [few years ago](http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2008/11/08/go-get-scratch) we had great success with…