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The happy developer
The programmer has a fixed amount of time and concentration that he can give every day. He must give a bigger piece of the pie to the bad technologies, simply because they require more. In other words, he ends up spending most … Continue reading
Leave it to java
After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop Java from mucking things up. Start with the fact that … Continue reading
Greenletters: Painless automation and testing for command-line applications
Did you ever use Expect to automate a complex command-line procedure, like an FTP upload? Expect is handy – and very powerful – but for Ruby projects it sure would be nice to be able to automate console apps directly … Continue reading
Announcing Firetower – A command-line interface to Campfire
OK, this is pretty early stuff but it’s already usable and I think it has a lot of potential. Firetower is a command-line interface to Campfire. It’s currently for Linux systems only, but there’s no reason it can’t be extended … Continue reading
Daemonic Emacs
Emacs is many things, but lightweight is not one of them. You don’t want to be starting a new Emacs process every time you edit a file, especially if you have an extensive set of customizations and extensions being loaded … Continue reading
Ubuntu, Emacs, and Fonts
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it used to be; these days Ubuntu ships with some nice-looking … Continue reading
