Organizing developers and techies has often been described as trying to "herd cats." Recently, the Drupal documentation team discovered that a professional cat herder (a Facilitator) can provide an amazing help at times when you have many difficult, high-level decisions to make.

What can you learn from their experience? The tale awaits.

In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed options for handling sets of bits from C++. In the conclusion, we'll review the pros and cons of BitMagic.

Unfortunately BitMagic does not use the autotools to build it's example programs. The changes to a few files shown below will allow you to build most of the sample programs that come with BitMagic on a 64-bit Linux machine using gcc. Once these changes are in place you should be able to type make rebuild to create most of the sample programs.

Article Source Linux Developer Network
April 22, 2009, 12:29 pm

The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the confirmed keynotes for this year’s highly anticipated LinuxCon. LinuxCon is a new annual technical conference combining the developer and end user communities for more than 75 conference sessions that address “All Matt...

Article Source Linux Journal
April 21, 2009, 11:24 am

Although rarely used, the bash declare statement does have a couple useful options. It can mark a variable as read only and also mark it as being a number only.