Another quick note today (it’s late, and I need to sleep :)), and again it’s VIM related. The dude that made ViEmu that I mentioned a couple of days back has come up with another plugin - this time for SQL Server 2005 Managment Studio. It weighs in at a hefty USD$99.95 which, in [...]
After all my ranting and raving on what I think would be awesome to have as an IDE, I somehow stumbled across exactly what I was trying to describe. ViEmu looks to be the perfect combination of VIM and Visual Studio.
Well, I did get very excited when I saw it and so I downloaded and [...]
I have pondered this question since long before I graduated from University. I’ve worked with a mix of degree-qualified and self-taught people, and I’m still yet to nail the answer.
Being degree-qualified or self-taught both have their pros and cons, but at the end of the day I think that the person who has a good [...]
I can no longer resist the temptation to talk about DRM (at least in part) after the issues that I faced over the weekend. I know I’m not the only one that has experienced the pain that I’m about to describe, and I’m pretty pissed off about it.
I’m going to be getting married pretty soon, [...]
I came across some info on The Inquirer earlier today regarding Firefox’s logo (shown on the right) that’s being used for the Japanese version. As the link above states:
The new logo for its Japanese Fire Fox, Foxkeh, was apparently chosen out of a field of 600.
How could they not see the issue with the [...]
In light of the recent International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I thought I’d have a quick rant about piracy. This is a bit of a touchy subject and I’m sure that everyone’s got their opinion, but I think that there are (or at least were a few years back) both good and bad sides [...]
One of the things that I think every web developer on the planet is sick of doing is building CRUD methods for their applications. It’s the kind of thing that we seem to do as developers over and over again despite the fact that this task is essentially monkey work.
There have been quite a few [...]
Just a quick one this morning. I have starting gathering a list of software applications that I use all the time (or will use) which I find to be good. There’s quite a few of these lists out there already, but I thought I’d comment on the stuff that I find useful and give you [...]
I’ve been a gamer for a very long time. My interest in games is what launched my programming career, and as a young kid I used to spend hours trying to figure out how those games worked on my Commodore Vic 20. Peeking and Poking was as far as I got in those days, but [...]
Computer failures. We’ve all been bitten by them, and I’m pretty sure we’ll all be bitten by them again. Good quality HDD storage is becoming more common, but despite the advances in technology, our drives still only have a reliable lifetime of a few years. Power supplies are becoming more solid, but they still blow [...]
