When using software product while you work, the best product is the one you don’t notice. And today I’ve noticed one: Notepad++.
Notepad++ is a great text editor and I’m using it instead of classic Windows Notepad. It starts as fast as Notepad and it’s design is minimalistic but it has features like syntax coloring, hex [...]

Last six months my main operating system is Ubuntu. I got used to the Linux file system, command line, Debian packages, compiling from source, customizing, scripting, KDE and Gnome.
For a time I was in a some weird newbeesh state where I could use operating system but I was full of questions and lost whenever something [...]

XAMPP is a software bundle consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database server and PHP hypertext processor. XAMPP is the easiest way to start with web development. It’s easy to install, just follow instruction on it’s web page. Unfortunately, on Ubuntu it doesn’t work immediately. When starting, I got some error message:”<code>arch: command not found</code>”. [...]

Ever felt like that? I often do. I’m using a PC for very different purposes. Music, graphics, development, games, internet and writing are some of my interest. Each of them requires me to have few applications installed: from simple tools like music players and format converters to development environments and office suites. So I’m constantly [...]

I’ve successfully replaced almost every application I had in windows with alternative one available in Linux. There is only one application I don’t have suitable replacement for: SyncBack.
I needed some exercise in Python, high level scripting language, so I decided my first project will be PySync: the simple synchronizer written in Python. Although I’m writing it to solve my own problem I’ll try to make it usable for others.

For more then ten years i was perfectly happy with Windows as my only operating system. I like when things improve and Windows was improved in each version. Hardware compatibility, overall stability, security, user interface: they all changed for better in each version of windows.
In case MS don’t succeed in making Vista a great OS i want to have another choice. Some time ago I tried some Linux distributions on virtual machine and now I installed Ubuntu 7.10 as dual boot to XP. Now I have greatest dual boot system I ever had.

I was thinking for some time about writing about operating systems i used. Today I saw the article by Shamus at Twenty Sided which urged me to finish it.

DOS 6.22
At the time i was using DOS computer was just gaming machine for me. I squeezed the last megahertz from my 386 to accommodate more and more demanding games. I liked the way DOS wasn’t getting in my way: >cd games >cd war2 >war2 weehee.

I went hunting for a bug tracker tool. It looks like there is tool for every pocket and server. PHP – Apache – MySql combination is prevailing in free open source field. Commercial and freeware tools all look the same in general and cover all the same functionality in different ways. In the end, somehow I discovered this little gem called BugTracker.NET. If I had time to write such a project I would probably wrote it this way. It’s free and open source, configurable to the smallest details without recompiling and works on IIS and SQL database, it’s written in ASP.NET and it’s easy to read. I fell in love immediately.