When I found out about fcsh, tried it out and saw how much faster it was than mxmlc, of course I wanted to immediately start using it instead in my build scripts. The biggest problem with doing this, though, is the fact that the basic operation of these two programs is fundamentally different: when you run mxmlc, it compiles the project, prints some messages to standard output and then exits

[...]. Fcsh, on the other hand, throws you into a shell of its own and expects you to essentially operate it from within itself (instead of simply calling it with some arguments and then having it return with some standard output and an exit status like mxmlc).

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I tried to search for a solution to this problem that somebody else might have come up with but didn’t find an adequate one (a list of the ones that I could find is further down), so I decided to give it a shot myself.

This is also known in the vernacular as "second save loses". It may sound too harsh, but it is much better than "first save loses and user isn't notified", which is what you get if you have no currency checking at all. And it's also much more web friendly that your old desktop app (which uses an approach that is technically called "pessimistic locking").

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by me (Igor Sysoev).

nginx has been running for more than four years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com).

In March 2007 about 20% of all Russian virtual hosts were served or proxied by nginx.

According to Google Online Security Blog year ago nginx served or proxied about 4% of all Internet virtual hosts.

But why not the Internet?

The reason is that it’s the most aggravating place in the world to write commercial software for.

You have, off the top of my head, 4 major web browsers to deal with across at least two operating systems.

Each of these scenarios requires its own set of tests, and each browser will behave slightly differently depending on what OS it’s running on and what browser version it is running.

And then there’s mobile.

Translation: I work at Microsoft and all this pesky choice, and the lack of the monoculture I'm used to, is scaring me.

In the paragraphs below, find a short description for each command-line tool. Click on the program name to get details about the program usage and a list of command-line options that alters how the program behaves. If you are just getting acquainted with ImageMagick, start with the convert program.

This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the Web Sockets protocol for two-way communication with a remote host.

This page contains a running web server, written in Javascript. The web server responds to requests to http://demo86824bbb.www.reversehttp.net/ by sending the contents of the text box below.

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.

This competition is about learning, or otherwise developing, the best controller (agent) for a version of Super Mario Bros.

The controller's job is to win as many levels (of increasing difficulty) as possible. Each time step (24 per second in simualated time) the controller has to decide what action to take (left, right, jump etc) in response to the environment around Mario.