Hack zero: Switch to Gmail
This is not a joke: Gmail is a fantastic and nearly spam-free platform. Notably, you can hook it up with a custom domain name so no one knows you are part of the Goog machine like everyone else.
Hack one: Greylisting with Postfix on Ubuntu
A mail transfer agent using greylisting will “temporarily [...]

Next week I’m sure Rails will be completely passé in favor of Merb (managed by git, of course). But for now, here’s the stuff that makes me a happy programmer this weekend:

Rspec With Xpath.
Autotest/Zentest
Continuous Integration (a practice not an app.)
CruiseControl.rb (see this for Rails).
CSS Dryer. Here’s my last ramble about server parsed CSS.

There’s this great movie called A Beautiful Mind that I saw once, and in the last few months I’ve been quoting it a few times when talking about my programming career. Overall it’s a great story, but the one scene that really gets me is when he (John Nash, famous mathematician) is standing in front [...]

Last I checked, only about 2 percent of developers were women.
Just now read this:
The GNOME Foundation received 181 applications for the Google Summer of Code (SoC) program, but not a single application was from a female developer. The lack of women participating in GNOME, and free software in general, has spurred the GNOME [...]

function stableMatching {
Initialize all m M and w W to free
while free man m who still has a woman w to propose to {
w = m’s highest ranked such woman
if w is free
engage (m, w)
else some pair (m’, w) already exists
if w prefers m to m’
(m, w) become married
m’ becomes free
else
(m’, w) [...]