Codecademy

Note to self:
Get back into coding, maybe codecademy.com can help.

Also:
http://hackerschool.org/DefconCTF/17/B300.html
http://work.hackerschool.org/DOWNLOAD/
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/technology/hacker_school/index.htm
http://insecure.org/stf/smashstack.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/googles-chrome-browser-on-friday.ars
http://www.skillcrush.com

Gunpoint

I've read about the game "Gunpoint" (by Tom Francis) a couple of times already and it seems very interesting. There's a preview on BoingBoing.

Money and the App Store

Article found on Gamasutra:
Money and the App Store: A few figures that might help an indie developer

Anonymous' attack tools

Article on arstechnica.com: High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools

Coding tutorials

Learn to Code in 2012 with Free Weekly Programming Lessons from Codecademy (lifehacker.com)

also: Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2012

Outland

Outland is finally out on the US PSN (came out in EU almost two weeks ago). I had played through the demo and loved it, made it a day 1 purchase for me. The animations are as smooth as butter and the in-game atmosphere is great.
Here's a "behind the scenes with Housemarque":

Interview with Dylan Cuthbert of Q-Games

The kid who trained with the Masters of Nintendo during a gaming golden age

New virus targeting Iran?

Reports of a new virus, "Stars," hitting Iran: son of Stuxnet?

GTA

The humble beginnings of Grand Theft Auto - article on kotaku.com, with a link to this nice photo gallery of GTA art.

Anonymous vs. HBGary

Here's an article that sums up what happened last month with the whole "Anonymous vs. HBGary"-thing.
Aaron Barr, the CEO of HBGary, pisses of Anonymous, they teach him a lesson and, in the process, find a lot of juicy material and make it public.

Also:
Article on BoingBoing entitled "How Anonymous decides: inside the lulz-sausage factory"

The boy who stole Half-Life 2

Eurogamer has an article about Axel Gembe, who stole the Half-Life 2 sourcecode back in 2003:
The boy who stole Half-Life 2
Can't believe that was over 7 years ago already.

The making of EVE Online

PCGamer has an article about "The making of EVE Online", an interesting read.

Ruby programming for beginners

Found this article on Lifehacker about Hackety Hack, a Ruby programming/learning tool for beginners.

In the comments of this article, someone mentioned Why the lucky stiff, the person behind Hackety Hack, and pointed to this article that tells a bit of background information on him.

rsync & backups

I've been using this backup-method for a while now and it works well for me.
After upgrading OSX to Snow Leopard, though, rsync would start to do its thing and then it would get stuck at
/var/vm/sleepimage
for no apparent reason.
After looking around a bit, I read that the version of rsync that OSX brings with it is fairly old and a newer version might behave better. Using this tutorial, I installed/compiled rsync 3.0.7 and it solved the problem.

Some articles on the same topic that are interesting as well:
http://www.lartmaker.nl/rsync/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143497&tstart=1
http://www.lbackup.org/developer/overview
http://help.bombich.com/faqs/troubleshooting/what-makes-a-volume-bootable

1993 - A visit to id software

A Visit to id Software from john romero on Vimeo.