plumber

Brandon Savage has a suggestion for those interviewing developers for positions at their company - forget the coding test.

IBM Developerworks: "If you think streams and pipes make a Linux® expert sound like a plumber, here's your chance to learn about them and how to redirect and split them.

You even learn how to turn a stream into command arguments."

There are a plethora of opportunities for geeks to meet and greet one another throughout the year: linux.conf.au, Linux Congress, OSCON, Linux Plumber's Conference, LinuxCon, the list goes on.

There is one, however, where the focus is purely on the customer, so-to-speak — the end user. The conference in question, aptly named the End User Summit, is quickly drawing near, and the Linux Foundation is wondering who wants to be there.

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Network Plumber's Journal: "Like most GPL related actions, a lot of work was done behind the scenes to get the offending company into compliance."