I’ve used a lot of Twitter applications. I’ve reviewed at least four on this site. I generally don’t stick with a single application for more than a week or two. TweetDeck has become the only exception to that rule – it has changed the way I use Twitter. I started using it back when it [...]
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TweetDeck Continually Improves the Twitter Experience
November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
Partition a Hard Drive Using a gParted Live CD
October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
Linux folks may know about a great piece of software called gParted, the Gnome Partition Editor. While booted into Linux, gParted works great for managing partitions on a hard drive. Windows users don’t have any good (read free) utilities like this, and the built-in Windows partition manager leaves much to be desired.
gParted Live is a [...]
Plone Conference, Day 2
October 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
So far on day 2 of the Plone Conference, I’ve sat in on sessions regarding what makes a great development team, how to become an individual Plone consultant, and the future of Plone’s user experience. All these were pretty good talks in and of themselves, but I’ve yet to find the magical session that helps [...]
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Plone Conference 2008
October 8th, 2008 · Comments Off
If you’ve noticed that I don’t seem to be around much this week, it’s because I’m not. I’m attending this year’s Plone Conference in Washington DC and will be here all week. The first two days (Monday-Tuesday) were pre-conference training, and the other three (Wednesday-Friday) are actual sessions and talks. The first two days weren’t [...]
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Should Programmers Use Older Hardware?
September 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
I stumbled across a forum thread at geeks.pirillo.com where a user posed the title question: should programmers use older hardware? The rationale behind the question was that the developer would have a better feel for how the code runs on slower machines. If it runs well on slow machines, it should run even better on [...]
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Launchy Comes to Linux
July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Launchy is a quick way to launch applications in Windows, and now it has made its way over to the Linux world. Launchy can be installed from source or as a .deb. Launchy depends on the libqt4 libraries, so be sure to install them first. If you try installing from the .deb, [...]
Make Your Flash Drive a Portable Office
July 20th, 2008 · Comments Off
A portable office is a set of applications on a device that can be used in situations when the computer you’re using isn’t your personal computer or it has been locked down by your IT department. Before you read any further, please be advised that this will only work on Windows-based computers.
1. Choose [...]
PHP Shells
July 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
One of the main things I like about scripting languages like Python and Ruby (*shudders*) is that they have an interactive shell mode. This allows a developer to quickly write some sample code and see what the result of that code is. In the web development industry, this isn’t quite as common. [...]
Featured Linux App: PCMan FM
July 11th, 2008 · Comments Off
PCMan File Manager is a fast, lightweight file manager for Linux. It’s based on Nautilus, Konqueror, Firefox, and many other programs. Its main use is on machines that have limited resources and cannot dedicate much to a file manager.
PCMan supports a wide array of features, such as tabbed browsing, volume management through HAL, [...]
Featured Linux App: YaKuake
July 9th, 2008 · Comments Off
YaKuake stands for Yet Another Kuake KDE terminal emulator. The website is pretty lame (doesn’t look like it’s been updated in 3 years), but the application itself is pretty handy. YaKuake can be hidden and recalled by a user-defined hotkey. Users can specify how large they want the window to be, where [...]
