1. Your Quick Guide to Promoting Technology

    So you found an awesome new technology and it changed your life. Two weeks in and it feels like you've been taken from stone age to space age. Good for you, but better still if you can help others see the light. Thousands are still hacking away with substandard programming …

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  2. Building a Web-Based Java API Search

    From time to time I play with web technologies to keep up with recent developments. While I know my network protocols pretty well, I'm not a frontend developer so I'm pretty useless when it comes to JavaScript or CSS. I believe in learning by doing, so I decided to build …

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  3. Setting Up a Web Proxy with Squid

    Setting up a Squid forward proxy can be a pretty daunting task since Squid is an extremely flexible piece of software. In this article, I'm going to provide a minimal non-caching, authenticated configuration. I have tested this with Squid 3.1.12 on Ubuntu 13.04, but with minor adjustments …

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  4. Quick Tip #5: Navigating in Source Trees

    I often move around in checked out Subversion or Git source trees on a Bash command line. Directory structures tend to get quite deep (especially in Java projects), so one problem keeps coming up frequently: Changing back to the base directory of the source tree. Typing "cd .." ten times is …

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  5. Getting Started With Kerberos

    Recently, I have been playing with Kerberos, a popular Single Sign On system (SSO) that is used in many large organizations. My first contact with Kerberos has been at university in a network security course, but that only covered the cryptographic part, not the more practical issues like setting up …

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  6. Undoing Things With Git

    Sometimes bad things happen in a software project and you have to revert a change that has already been committed. There are several ways to do this with Git, including Git's slightly scary ability of changing history. I'll show you the techniques I found most useful.

    The classic way of …

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  7. Matplotlib: Plotting Bar Diagrams

    A while ago we plotted time series data with Matplotlib. This worked nicely, but with the data at hand, a bar diagram would have looked much better. In this article I'll give you a template for using bar diagrams with time series data. This builds on the work we did …

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