How does a browser render a website? [more inside]
posted on Dec 17, 2006 - 10 answers

How many programmers are capable of contributing to Linux? Of those, how many have contributed, since Linux began?
posted on Jul 26, 2005 - 9 answers

Jared Tarbell generously offers the source code to Binary Ring (click on "Thumbnail gallery" – "Binary Ring" – "Launch applet"). I’d like to modify this code to make larger images of the same type but I’m not getting anywhere. How do I do this? I’m a beginner idiot.
posted on Jan 2, 2005 - 4 answers

Why (in general) do you need source files? Why can't applications manipulate binary files directly? [more inside.]
posted on Jan 15, 2004 - 11 answers