Why Do We Build Web Applications?

Creating a good user interface is no trivial task, no matter if it’s running as a desktop application or inside a browser. When it comes to accessing server-side resources (a common thing in the corporate world) web applications seem to be the first choice nowadays. You have complete control over deployment and in theory platform [...]

Quick Tip #1: Implicit FIFOs in Bash

One could assume that I have run out of material and retreat to safer ground, but far from it. From now on I’ll just throw in a few quick shell hacks hoping some of you don’t know them yet. So, here it goes …
Unix pipes are cool, but it’s quite a limitation that a program [...]