Author: Mark Shead

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln (source)

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

This is an interesting thought from Einstein. Reading is usually a good thing and modern society reads far to little. However, there are people where reading is actually what prevents them from doing. Acquiring knowledge through books is good, but not when it becomes a substitute for actually applying the knowledge you already have and creating new knowledge that doesn’t already exist.

Google is killing off Code Search. This was an extremely useful tool for programmers because you could easily look up public code to show you how to use a library or solve a particular problem. Koders and Kurgle appear to be alternatives, but don’t seem to be nearly as comprehensive.

Here is a story of someone who found a bug in Git that overwrote his data. Of course his development process involved coding for three days without checking any code in locally and then doing a pull before committing any of his changes.

PhoneGap can convert your HTML5/Javascript app into a native app for multiple mobile platforms.