"I was always amazed by the way emacs gurus navigated through source code. It almost seemed like magic. They see some function call, and then with some short keyboard combo jump to another file, on the exact place where the function was defined. The 'magic' in this case is a tag file..."

With the high prices of many of the newer PBX systems on the market, an Open Source alternative may be the right fit for you and your budget. Especially if it can deliver as many feature rich applications as Asterisk is capable of doing.

The Perl Foundation has migrated Perl 5 to the Git version control system, making it easier than ever for Perl's development team to continue to improve the language that powers many websites.

"The Pragmatic Programmers recommend learning a new programming language every year. I thought for a long time that this was a good idea, but didn't really act on it. Instead I'd dabble in a dozen languages a year. While this has built my intuition as to what various languages are like it has not made me a competent programmer in a new language.

"Hi all, A new list has opened. It is for dev work not user land issues or bugs. You can contribute, those who do so in real ways get to influence things..."

"Lead kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the official release of Linux 2.6.28 on Wednesday. The new version introduces some noteworthy changes that will put the kernel in a strong position for growth and advancement in the coming year..."

"Magit is a spectacular Emacs add-on for interacting with git. Magit was designed with git in mind (unlike VC mode, which is a more generic utility), so git commands map quite straightforwardly onto Magit commands..."

When I heard U.S. president-elect Barack Obama make his "lipstick on a pig" remark while running as a candidate back in September, it got me thinking about language, and how it can be used to deceive as easily as to explain.