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Category: Computing

  • Looking Forward: Ubuntu’s App Store

    Ubuntu developers will be releasing the beta of the next major version of Ubuntu Linux: 9.10 sometime in the next two weeks.  Yours truly, plans on upgrading my main home system to help with the beta test.  With every release I’m expecting a rather incremental improvement.  However the real interest feature (which I doubt will…

  • Fake Linus @ LinuxCON

    And something for your weekend viewing pleasure: a parody for the “Fake Linus” that appeared on Twitter/identi.ca as part of the prelude to the Linux Foundation‘s new convention in Portland, Oregon: LinuxCON (And yes, I am thinking of updating this blog on a DAILY and not just weekday-ly basis. 😉 )

  • Web Play Made Fun with ExtJS

    At work I’ve started working with ExtJS for the user interface for the web application I’m helping develop.  I’ve always had reservations about using Javascript.  Or rather I’ve always hated dealing with inconsistencies in DOM handling in browsers.  Whenever I deal with CSS, I always hate dealing with cross-browser checking.  Fortunately with increased popularity of…

  • Meet My Next Phone

    I’ve been a huge fan of the Maemo system, since I got my hands on a N810.  Now I can hardly wait to get my hands on an Internet tablet with phone capabilities: N900.  The price is a bit prohibitive, and I have no clue when I’ll be able to get one up here in…

  • Drupal Dreams

    I love my WordPress powered blog.  For a blogging site, WordPress is the way to go.  However there are site that require me to step beyond the paradigms of a blog. Back in the day, I used to hardcode all my sites using XHTML & PHP.  I’d make them elegant, minimalistic and W3C compliant.  I…

  • Mental Shards: Ninjas, Stacks and Menus

    I’m a huge fan of checking out RSS planets, especially with the technologies I love to use.  Now I use Google Reader to aggregate and handle these hundreds of stories.  Every so often, a story grabs my attention and gets me thinking.  I’ve starred hundreds, only to never look for them again.  I found that…

  • A Tiny Update

    It is Friday.  Feeling tired from the irregular sleep cycles of this past week.  I didn’t move forward as fast I wanted to this week.  I’ve felt distracted, tired and could not focus.  Still the minutae of this week didn’t tie me down.  Thanks to a friend my Polish writing improved in leaps and bounds…

  • The Chrome and the Cloud

    Google today announced their Chrome OS project.  The details are sketchy for this announcement.  This Chrome OS apparently stems from the Chrome web browser that Google released last year.  A sort of instant-on netbook operating system, that meshes the hardware with the Internet cloud.  Google claims the OS project differs from the Android stack that…

  • New Site for justCheckers

    I’m setting up a new site for the justCheckers project.  The only real good reason for my working at all on this project, is simply to build a portfolio.  As a software developer, I want to show to others that I can code.  And that my code is clean, elegant and professional.  I also want…

  • Red Hat is Community?

    I don’t do this often, but I must say Red Hat’s new ad is pretty rad.  Now Red Hat isn’t the only ones building community.  But this one video explains Red Hat’s modus operandi.  And it is quite catchy!