If you ask a moderately experienced git user about submodules they are likely to turn to you, look you earnestly in the eye and say: "don't use them, life is too short". Or, if they are a more experienced and helpful git user, they might explain exactly why git submodules…

My financial affairs are simple enough that I can keep track of them by exporting the transaction data from my bank accounts and annotating the exports in a Google sheet. The annotations allow me to classify each income or expenditure item with a category that allows me to generate reports…

This post documents a guide to building VirtualBox on OSX 10.9. This document should be read in conjunction with the official Mac OS X build instructions [1]. Its intended audience are people relatively new to VirtualBox and/or OSX development who might find that the official instructions don't provide…

a blog by wild duck theories "wild duck theories" is the name of a company I established after I resigned from IBM in Februrary 2014 after a career spanning 24 years; this blog "technically quacking" gives voice to my inner "wild duck". The name, "wild duck theories", was inspired in…