Cody Taylor

Calls artists ‘trolls’

For Linux users who don’t need absolute top-notch 3D performance, Intel is considered the preferred graphics solution, not least because the company develops its drivers as open source within the framework of the X.org project. However Intel’s drivers are currently in a state of some disarray.

One might think that the ext3 filesystem, by virtue of being standard on almost all installed Linux systems for some years now, would be reasonably well tuned for performance. Recent events have shown, though, that some performance problems remain in ext3, especially in places where the fsync() system call is used.

Vic Gundrota, Vice President of Engineering at Google, talks with Tim O’Reilly about the moment he decided he had to move to Google.

Ruby on Rails, an open source web development framework, has revolutionized the way we create web applications. In this article, we discuss some of the ways Rails can help you in rapidly building fully-featured web-based applications.

Not every application needs to always shows itself to be functional. Some just do their job quietly in the background while some hide themselves until they are needed. This is the perfect explanation of what menubar application do.

Every designer uses Photoshop. Even if you’ve been using it for over 10 years, you’ll still find new tricks and different ways to do things. Refine the way you work and speed through repetitive tasks. The following tips are intended for interactive designers.

From the Napa Wineries in California to the vineyards of Australia and France, the beautiful designs of these wine maker’s websites embody the spirit of the vine. Trends for winery websites have been leaning towards a dynamic Flash introduction, animation and beautiful graphics, which would give the best representation of the products.

W3Counter.com just releasted their april market share stats and linux passed 2.16% for the first time ever.

Sometimes it’s simply overwhelming how many gorgeous photos there are on Flickr (Flickr reviews) – sifting through them to find a picture to use on your blog or to just admire can be a chore. Luckily for us however, Flickr has an API, meaning that some creative developers have built alternative Flickr search engines.