Archive for January, 2008
Being a curious mind kills a developer with a timeline. This is half of my everyday battle. The other half is the financial situation to afford many tools we all love(Photoshop, ColdFusion, Apple). So we’re stuck with a small budget but need to perform at our best. This is why I love Open Source software. [...]
With Sun’s recent purchase of MySQL, is it to one’s best interest to move to one of the other leaders of open source databases? It could be too early to tell. With so many people dependent on MySQL its hard to believe anything will change, after all Java still is a pretty cheap [...]
I rarely use sqlite, but I have to say it is a pretty handy database that in my opinion works very well. Last time I used it I was on windows, but this go ’round I was using Ubuntu. I was searching for a nice admin tool and none seemed to suite me as I [...]
Installing Safari on Ubuntu is apparently pretty darn easy. A quick tutorial on doing so can be found here. It successfully installed for me on 64-bit as well.
Now we have no reason not to test in every browser. I’m impressed more and more everyday of what the Open Source world is achieving!
In viewing the latest designs for the new theme proposals for Ubuntu 8.04, I see a lot of designs which I think are headed in the wrong direction if Ubuntu has plans on moving into the mainstream of operating systems. Many are going towards a dark them, which is good if you’re a hip 20 [...]