Software

Improve Make’s Speed with the –jobs Switch

Yesterday, while going compile-crazy and whatnot, I discovered a switch for GNU Make. The -j switch (or –jobs) allows you to have Make run multiple jobs on the same task, improving compile time. I wanted to see just how fast it was, so I did some tests. The Tests In these tests, I compiled Ruby‘s [...]

WicketPixie Updates… Again

If you haven’t seen already, EdenCode is down, which means you can’t download WicketPixie 1.0.4. Well, the good news is I am on Chris’ WicketPixie developer team and we are working on the next version of WicketPixie (much better if I do say so myself). You can find the latest release candidate of WicketPixie on [...]

WicketPixie v1.0.4 Is Here!

That’s right, Ping.fm has approved the use of their API in WicketPixie. So without further ado, WicketPixie v1.0.4. Instead of trying to remember the changes from my head, I’ll be lazy and post the changelog with all the updates since 1.0, which was released by Chris Pirillo. When I started working on WicketPixie I didn’t [...]