Archive for the 'software' Category
Monday, August 4th, 2008
You name your piece of software and you find its serial number on YouSerials, a serial number search engine. Malware-free, you’re given the serial number on the site itself : no need to download anything that might compromise your pc. Plus, users comment on the serial offered which will let you know which works and [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
First, do read Kurt’s blog entry about the Net PC. It is insightful.
So, what if you did get one with a high priced keyboard, mouse, and monitor, regardless of whether you’ve known about the limitations or not?! How do you survive?
Viva web apps!
Important Note: You’ve only 30 hours of internet access per month. Use the [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Instead of reading programming.reddit, dreaming up topics and posting articles on my blog, I have instead opted to work on a CMS for my sweetheart Kristel, both to serve as her online portfolio and to be a fun small project for me to code.
Rationale
The reason why I decided to code a CMS from the ground [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Geeks with not much to say talk about their tools. Here’s an eft:
Today, I talk about my experience upgrading the FREE Linux distribution Ubuntu from 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) to 6.10 (Edgy Eft). The leap (check this link out if you’re geeky like me) from 6.06 to 6.10 was hyped up to bring lotsa “cutting [...]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Today I swung by my alma mater to attend a lecture hosted by Vint Cerf, without whom we wouldn’t be surfing the Internet today, entitled “Internet in the 21st Century“. An illustrious figure indeed, and very well spoken as well, Vint is currently the Chief Internet Evangelist and vice president over at Google. A title [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
For the uninitiated:
Q) Have you ever wondered what a software developer REALLY does?
A) Sit in front of the monitor confused. (or cursing… or both)
A while ago, I read an article about how developers spend their time. What Jeff Atwood postulates is that developers spend MUCH more time understanding code rather than typing in new stuff. [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Hello blog.
I have been abducted by aliens for the past couple of weeks and they allowed me to go back to earth for the DemoCamp and to write this blog post. DemoCamp 9 has been yet another awesome outing. Lots of regulars and new people as well, and amazingly cool demos. Today, we’ve had folks [...]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
Trac is by far the best developer-centric project management tool i’ve used so far. I’ve always had the pleasure to use it, but thankfully not to administrate it. After 4 configurations, compilations, and installations (all done manually of course) of all its dependencies (yes 4 installation CYCLES! and that does not count the number of [...]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
If you don’t code try this. You might like it! It is an interactive, “hands-on” tutorial to Ruby, the programming language. If you do code, try it anyway if you haven’t picked up Ruby yet. This tutorial has been made with the beginner in mind, so the author does quite a bit of hand-holding. While [...]
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