Archive for the ‘general’ Category
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I've installed an application called Enso on my laptop.
What is it? It's an application, which turns the caps lock key into a small command prompt, which you can use to run various commands, such as calculating, opening applications, controlling windows etc.
Enso is a product of a company called Humanized, which ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment in 4 easy steps, one of which is optional and one of which isn't really a step at all! ;)
These days I've been working on Linux servers for a long time, so when I had to install all the things necessary for ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I haven't had access to a computer or time to think about anything interesting to write lately, as I've been doing my civil service. Anyways, let's post something now!
As a long time computer user, I've used many different user interfaces, both software ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
I got myself a laptop, and it's always kind of annoying to "start from scratch" - install all the applications you need, set up the browsers, set up email, install entertainment (codecs for movies, games)...
Since I didn't have anything installed, and I kind of want to save space on the ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
So I've been using WordPress as my blogging platform for a while now. As a matter of fact, this is my 48th post with WP.
I had only heard good things about WordPress before installing it, but how has it worked out?
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Many people probably know Linux and its various easy to use scripting languages, like Python, Perl and Bash Script.
They are available on most systems, and it's very easy to write little command-line scripts with them to ease various tasks.
Often you could use a small scripting language like the above on ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
First,
<insert your favorite holiday greeting here>
Been slightly quiet here now because I've been feeling a bit lazy, but on this time of the year it's allowed, right? ;)
I think I will start posting more regularily again after new years as I'm working on some interesting things.
Now with that out of ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Pie, just like pie menus, is great.
What is a "pie menu"? If you don't play games, you might not be very familiar with this great type of menu, as it isn't really used anywhere outside games as far as I know.
Pie menu is a menu, which opens around your cursor, ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
My definition of a widget: a small web application inside your browser. Opera has had widgets for a while now, and I'm sure Firefox has a plugin which provides similar features. But what is the future of widgets?
I'm a widget developer - I have made quite many widgets and even ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
While possibly a great help and a way to speed development up, are database access classes like Zend_Db and others making people forget about SQL?
ActiveRecord, Table Row Gateway and whatnot, are people trying to constrain their thinking inside the bounds given by these implementations?
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