Archive for the 'software' Category

Serial Search engine

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 [...]

Surviving the Software Limitations of the Net PC

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 [...]

Introducing Fotofolio

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 [...]

Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Upgrade plus Compiz goodness on AIGLX

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 [...]

Internet in the 21st Century

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 [...]

10 ways to spend more time “coding” with friends

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. [...]

Toronto DemoCamp 9

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 [...]

trac installation woes

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 [...]

If you don’t code

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 [...]