Git ignore patterns are used to exclude certain files in your working directory from your Git history. They can be local, global, or shared with your team.
How Red Hat Sees Containers as an Abstraction and What That Means - The New Stack
Containers are an abstraction. It could be a Docker container or perhaps at some point an abstraction that is in parallel with Open Container Initiative's emerging set of container standards. For now, the real work is about the delivery of all the pieces to develop architectures that will be built on continuous delivery and coordinated…
Exploiting the Firewall Beachhead: A History of Backdoors Into Critical Infrastructure
There is no network security technology more ubiquitous than the firewall. With nearly three decades of deployment history and a growing myriad of corporate and industrial compliance policies mandating its use, no matter how irrelevant you may think a firewall is in preventing today's spectrum of cyber threats, any breached corporation found without the technology can expect to be hung, drawn, and quartered by both shareholders and industry experts alike.
Become a better writer by taking a poorly written piece and rewriting it yourself Once in a while I read something so complex and poorly written, when I’m finished I have no idea what I just read. …
"If KickassTorrents is a Criminal Operation, Google Should Start Worrying" - TorrentFreak
Polish authorities have extended the arrest of Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of KickassTorrents. His defense team is currently preparing to fight the U.S. extradition request, which will start next month. According to Artem's U.S. lawyer, operating a torrent site is not a criminal offense. "If KickassTorrents is a criminal operation, then Google should start worrying," he says.
Avoiding quality assurance disasters with openQA | Opensource.com
Proper quality assurance can save lives and money. That's why the openSUSE and Fedora communities heavily rely on openQA, a fully automated and open source test framework.
Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Embrace Motivational Steampunk - The New Stack
Every few weeks I think it's important to change things up and talk about current tech trends in the Off-The-Shelf Hacker column. It's also helpful to provide one-off and free-association links to information that readers can use to dream up, design and then build their own physical computing, microcontroller, Linux and DIY/Maker projects. WiFi Everywhere…
New design for programmer tools - good coders code, great coders reuse
I just hacked together a new design for Browserling's web developer tools. Check it out! Tools are split into 12 categories: web tools, conversion tools, encryption tools, hash tools, password tools, text tools, randomization tools, image tools, time and date tools, math tools, other tools, all tools. I created these...
Everyone talks about security on infrastructure, but it comes at a heavy cost. While datacenters have been securing their perimeters with firewalls for
The Remote Worker's Survival Guide - O'Reilly Media
In this report, you’ll learn to address two main challenges: How to organize your own life as a telecommuter, and how to work as part of a larger team.
[Image: Photo by Michele Limina, courtesy Bloomberg]. Bloomberg has a look at the subterranean warehousing strategies of the very rich, including former Swiss military caves and bunkers that have b…
data structures - How exactly is an Abstract Syntax Tree created? - Programmers Stack Exchange
I think I understand the goal of an AST, and I've built a couple of tree structures before, but never an AST. I'm mostly confused because the nodes are text and not number, so I can't think of a ni...