Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Getting Started guide for Lubuntu novices

Posted on 2012-10-01 by Stephan Sokolow

Just thought I’d share the Getting Started guide that grew from my periodic use of Lubuntu to make old PCs useful to the needy. It’s on GitHub and you can also view it online though the WebODF renderer doesn’t yet … Continue reading →

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…sort of like DxDiag for Linux

Posted on 2012-09-22 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: This script collects hardware and OS info for reporting bugs in Linux games because, on Linux, the functionality of DxDiag is split up across several different tools. The Humble Indie Bundle 6 just came out and, wanting Torchlight, I … Continue reading →

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Questions to ask when marketing software and services

Posted on 2012-07-24 by Stephan Sokolow

After writing what must be my third or fourth e-mail offering advice to an online service whose marketing completely missed the mark with me, I started to notice that I was touching on the same set of points. Again and … Continue reading →

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How to use things like Fat-Free Framework with “php -S”

Posted on 2012-07-05 by Stephan Sokolow

Having grown very used commands like these, nobody was more eager than I when PHP 5.4 introduced its own no-setup development server. python manage.py runserver (Django) paster serve –reload (Pylons) nodemon (NodeMon for Node.js) jekyll –auto –server (Jekyll, used by … Continue reading →

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A Quick “Contact Me” Fix

Posted on 2012-07-01 by Stephan Sokolow

Apparently, the CGI script powering my mail form slipped through the cracks when I was setting up health monitoring for this site and had been giving error 500 for an unknown period of time. It’s now fixed and I’ve rewritten … Continue reading →

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GitHub vs. BitBucket: Shifting Value Propositions

Posted on 2012-06-13 by Stephan Sokolow

It used to be that GitHub vs. BitBucket was a no-brainer. GitHub was sleek, featureful, popular, and supported git, the godsend. BitBucket was clunky, buggy, comparatively little-known, and required you to use that hg thing with the annoying workflow. However, … Continue reading →

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Open Source for MBAs: A Primer

Posted on 2012-06-11 by Stephan Sokolow

If you’re neither a scientist, nor active in the open-source community, it can be difficult to properly understand why people write open-source software. Why would people just give away the products of so much hard work? I fully understand why … Continue reading →

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