There are 4 articles tagged as "hack"

Saturday night hack - coords

on March 24, 2013. in Development, Programming, Software. A 4 minute read.

When I was just starting out learning programming, everything was so simple. I did not care about design patterns and best practices and unit tests and how will users use that piece of code. Hell, I did not even know those things exist. I was having fun, I was learning, I was free to do whatever I wanted to do, I was playing, I was like a child. Not that there is something wrong caring about those things now, but then I was able to put out a piece of code that was fixing a core of one problem I had and that was it. Once I was done with that, I would move on to the next problem. For a long time now I was missing that feeling of not caring, just fix the damn problem and move on. Just to slap together some crappy piece of code, use it once or twice and then forget about it.

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Changing Jenkins' home directory on Ubuntu

on August 04, 2011. in Development, Software. A 1 minute read.

I’ve started to play around with Jenkins yesterday and I kinda don’t like that it’s default home directory is /var/lib/jenkins so I changed it to /home/jenkins, so I’m throwing the steps needed out here for future reference.

Contributing to open source

on March 17, 2011. in Blablabla. A 2 minute read.

Often times people ask me why do I contribute to open source, why do I “waste money and time” on free stuff when I could easily do the same thing for money? Don’t have I enough of staring at the computer at work where, well, I do the same thing - hack on code? Ummm. No.

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Wordpress as CMS tutorial

on March 14, 2009. in Development, Programming, Software. A 7 minute read.

Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms out there — if not the best. It’s very powerful, can be easily extended and modified. It’s documentation is very well written and, so far, had answer to all of my crazy questions :)

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