Right now I’m finding this question a tough one to answer. The hardcore geeks out there are probably saying “install all the distros you need!”, but I’m not sure if I want to do that or not. Right now, I’m thinking not, and it’s going to take a bit of time to convince me that [...]
After reading Dan’s response to this a few days ago, I decided to have a bit of a play with Notepad++. I do think it’s a very nice little text editor with some lovely features. It’s quitck, it’s simple, and the syntax hilighting works a treat (no thanks to Scintilla of course). One thing I [...]
Productivity. It’s something that all of us, as developers, should be finding ways to increase. I say should because I know of a stack of people out there who don’t. In fact, there’s a surprising amount of people out there who are not only not looking to find ways to increase productivity, they seem to [...]
Boy that was quick! I’m sure there’s still some DNS servers out there that need to be updated, but things certainly moved quickly. Blackapache is now on a new server, and I’m pretty darned happy with the ease and speed of the move. Not just that, but this new location feels a heck of a [...]
In the next couple of days Blackapache is going to be shifting to a new server. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is the fact that I’m frustrated and unimpressed with the level of service I’m getting with the current provider. I’m not going to directly state who it is, [...]
Before starting this blog up, I spent a bit of time thinking about the kind of things I would like to talk about which other people might find interesting. I also wanted to find some areas of discussion where people would be interested in giving me feedback and comments containing their thoughts and opinions so [...]
I was trundling through my usual collection of daily links yesterday morning (before diving into my work), and I stumbled on a link to a recent blog post by a chap called Peter Wright. There are a couple of reasons why this blog post caught my eye.
First of all, during my time in the U.K. [...]
Have the days of writing code in VIM ended? Is Emacs ready to be put to bed? Are we destined to spend the rest of our development lives heads-down in a bloated and expensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
IMHO, this argument is very much a Linux vs Windows style argument.
To those long term VIM and [...]
I was hoping to find a little more time this evening to write up some thoughts about Enterprise Application Development but that’s going to have to wait since it’s getting late and I have to be up early in the morning.
So for now, I think all of you would enjoy taking a peek at something [...]
Yesterday I had one of those wonderful days that every geek gets to enjoy once in a while - the day of rebuilding one’s machine. In this case it wasn’t my machine it was Amy’s, but the effect is much the same I went through the process of backing up, repartitioning, reinstalling WinXP [...]
