Floating Point Guide

I came across a great article about the pit falls of using floating point numbers in programming. All to often software bugs come up because developers expect something like 0.1+0.2==0.3. The article goes into very clear detail as to why it is not the case that we can expect exact equality while using float point representations.

Dual booting Linux and Windows with linux already installed

I have always been told in order to dual boot Linux and Windows you must first install Windows then Linux. The idea being that Window's boot loader does not play nicely with Linux like Grub or Lilo does. However it is often easier to install Linux then Windows; like with the up coming Windows 7 release, Linux users may want to try out Windows 7 without having to reinstall their Linux installs. I cam across a great tutorial on how to do just this.

Twitter can be neat

If  you are like me you don't exactly see the usefulness of the social networking site Twitter. After reading a recent wired article I can not better see that usefulness. There appears to be some pretty clever people connecting common house hold devices to Twitter.

This really isn't all that new of a concept however. People have been connecting bots to IRC for control for a very long time now. I would suspect similar devices have been plugged into IRC. I wonder about the secuirty behind putting so much control of your house onto the net. Losing control of your own account could give an attacker control of say your air conditioning and drop your house to 60 degrees. Causing your electric bill to ski rocket.

Great C Tutorial

Dr. Dave Marshall at Cardiff School of Computer Science has written a great C tutorial. This tutorial is mostly aimed at UNIX C developers and covers the basics of C programming to advanced multi-threaded application development. This is the tutorial that I used to learn C and I still open it up whenever I need to look up something new or need a quick refresher on something. Unfortunately it appears that Google keeps burying the link so I thought it would be helpful to others that are looking for in my opinion the best C tutorial available online.