This is a round-up of continuous integration tools, in no particular order.

• CruiseControl: Open source, Java-based. Focused on build.
• Cruise: Commercial. Build/test/deploy/release. Works for most platforms and languages. Free for small and open source teams.
• CruiseControl.NETOpen source rewrite of the original CruiseControl for Java.
• Hudson ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I've switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to control audio output. (It's nice to be able to quickly mute or pause ...

I'll take an array over a giant switch-case statement any day.

1. The array definition will be more compact and easier to see all at once.
2. Defining actions in an array enforces uniformity.
3. You can put checks in the code to automatically verify that the array definition is complete. (I ...

The Dreamhost wiki article on Django helped, but all the steps starting from scratch aren't really documented in one place. Hopefully the list below will help, but since I'm writing it after the fact and I had to go through a couple of iterations to get it right ...

When you install i3 on Ubuntu via apt-get install i3-wm, it should come with dmenu, but it doesn't.

Dmenu is a handy launcher that you can (by default) invoke with mod-d, then start typing the command you want to run (with dynamic completion) and press enter when the command ...