Is DOCX really an open standard?

It is hard to believe that even in 2012 we struggle with standards as common as those of documents, presentations and spreadsheets. The de facto formats of these of course are those used by Microsoft Office (docx, pptx, xlsx (collectively called OpenXML or OOXML)), which…

How to buy a road bike

Buying a road bike as a beginner can be quite the daunting task. You’ll likely see bikes available to you starting at $60, going all the way into the $1000s with seemingly little differences between them. But even the smallest of parts do make a difference on a bike and should be…

A Year of Open Source: My Review

I just recently completed a whole year of working as an open source developer. I worked on various projects including Mozilla Firefox, EGit, JGit, SQLite, and NexJ Express. The following is a brief history of this process, followed by the lessons I have learned from it…

Git Stash

Git’s Stash feature is consistently under used, which is strange because is also one of Git’s features that makes it ridiculously awesome.

Hers’s how it works:

UseCase:
You start working on an issue or feature and have made changes to one or many files in…