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Jun 14, 2008

On Desktops

I said earlier that I did not like the direction in which KDE 4.0 was going in. But the underlying cause can be perhaps found in Havoc Pennington’s post. GNOME 2.0 and KDE 4 are bad models for change. [Continue]

May 11, 2008

Task Management Using vim

Task management is a sensitive issue. Even the ones who do not explicitly manage tasks are defensive about how they do it. I was one of them for quite some time, till I realized that it was not working anymore. [Continue]

May 2, 2008

vim As A Personal Wiki

vim is an extremely flexible and versatile editor and is one of those tools which have a cult-like following. Typically these tools are liked a lot by these followers and hated by others. So, this post is for those who like to use, or who are open to trying out, vim. [Continue]

Mar 31, 2008

Adobe AIR Debuts On Linux

Finally! Adobe AIR is now available on Linux, though it is not a full-featured release yet. The good thing is that this release includes the SDK and Flex Builder 3 along with the runtime. [Continue]

Feb 28, 2008

Judging You By Your Tools

Sometimes a lot of us, even the heavy weight ones, want to write like fanatics. David Heinemeier Hansson wonders if he would Windows is the most unsuitable platform for web and open source development. I am an open-source-fanboy Linux user, but I am aware of a lot of good open source tools on Windows. [Continue]

Feb 25, 2008

Adobe AIR Goes To 1.0, But Still Without Linux

Adobe is about to release AIR 1.0, which means that AIR will cross a huge milestone. AIR is a cross platform merge the desktop and the Web, and develop rich applications. I think this is a milestone not only for Adobe, but for the technologies which can offer webified applications. [Continue]

Feb 21, 2008

Microsoft Trying To Get Popular By Wooing Students

Microsoft is trying to woo the students by offering its development tools for free (via Slashdot). Called DreamSpark, the offering is open to too all students across the globe. Microsoft hopes that this will create users for Microsoft’s tools, and possibly eat into the open source user base. [Continue]

Feb 20, 2008

Mozilla Messaging And It Is Thunderbird 3

Mozilla Messaging is a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, and as the name says, focusing on messaging (via Ars Technica). The plans, as David Ascher explains, are to build a great product on the existing Thunderbird 2 base. We’ve started defining what Thunderbird 3 will be, because we think that there is enough consensus to make some of the first decisions on the most important changes to tackle first. [Continue]

Feb 8, 2008

Why Do I Not Use Emacs?

Why do I not use Emacs? A good question, and the reason is more about vim, not Emacs. Both of them are fairly comparable and achieve similar levels in extensibility, flexibility and productivity, except in complete contrast ways. [Continue]

Jan 16, 2008

The Other Browser Shortcuts

Jeff Atwood writes about five browser shortcuts everyone should know. I completely agree that shortcuts can be extremely productive. They give you a quick, unobtrusive way of invoking your actions. [Continue]

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