Just stumbled on this first chapter of an upcoming book on Gestural Interfaces. It’s pretty interesting to read, and it good me wanting more. I am so putting this book on my Amazon wishlist.
Go read the first chapter here.
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Programe nou instalate si care au ramas la mine
- Juice – Podcast RSS catcher; downloadeaza podcasturi audio automa. Yupii, no more wget keith_and_the_girl.mp3 🙂
- CCleaner (fost CrapCleaner) – mi-a curatat 2 gigade junk! si eu care ma mandream ca imi curat temp-urile destul de des 😦
- Windows Media Player 11 – suna mai bine decat winamp-ul pe laptopul meu
- Thinking Rock2 Epsilon – organizarea nu strica
- Minefield (aka Firefox3 Alpha8)
- Opera 9.5 Alpha – pare cel mai rapid browser din toate pe care le am / le-am incercat pana acum
- MultiMon TaskBar – super util la work, unde am 2 monitoare
- Pidgin -messenger on steroids (cel putin la capitolul viteza :))
Guess who’s back …
Dupa multa lupta cu mine, ceasul, lista de task-uri si alte mici amanunte din viata unui programator angajat, dupa vreo cateva idei de a renunta sau de merge am reusit sa postez si pe blogul tehnic. Chiar vreo 2 lucruri 🙂
Intai de toate am terminat articolul despre cum sa iti faci propriul modul de Apache pe Windows. Versiunea de Linux era publicata de mult, si promisesem si continuarea. Uite ca am reusit.
A doua chestie e legata de Silverlight. Sau de Microsoft -> OSS. Sau de amandoua de fapt. Oricum, pentru cei care nu au chef sa citeasca tot postul rezumatul e asta: O sa fie Silverlight si pe Linux, se numeste Moonlight. E facut de baietii de la Mono project si o sa aiba codecurile provided de Microsoft.
Si gata, ca mi-am depasit cota de blogging pe ziua de azi. Nighty night.
Feed day today!
Azi trebuie sa stau cuminte acasa – se repara ferestre, ziduri si alte chestii. Si cum lots of interruptions nu fac prea bine la programare am trecut pe feed reading. Oricum ma plangeam eu mai demult ca tre sa catch up cu reader-ul.
Oricum, partea buna e ca am inceput sa folosesc optiunea de feed sharing – in loc sa copy – paste link-uri aici doar dau share in reader.
Deci, cine e curios ce mi se pare interesant in reader, click aici.
Windows poate fi din nou cool
Si sa faca si ceva bun in acelasi timp. Via Lifehacker am dat peste ShellEnhancer, un utilitar pentru Windows care stie tot felul de trucuri – comenzi activate prin miscarea cursorului in colturile ferestrei, un ALT-TAB mult imbunatatit si un mozaic task switcher care ajuta destul de mult cand ai o tona de ferestre deschise.
Ah, si preferata mea: poti sa minimizezi orice fereastra in System Tray. Daca esti curios il poti lua de aici.
Din vremurile bune …
Provocat de leapsa primita de la Marius (acum cateva zile recunosc) m-am gandit putin la ce jocuri m-au tinut cel mai mult in fata PC-ului. Si, pe scurt, topul meu 5:
- Sanitarium
- Diablo I & II
- Heroes of Might and Magic series (mai ales II-ul mi-a mancat foarte multe nopti)
- Starcraft
- Unreal Tournament
- Bonus: Need for Speed series
MaxPayne invie?
Nu-mi place sa scriu “primul post”, mai ales ca nu e nici macar primul blog, asa ca, cum ar spune americanii, “let’s get down on the floor”.
Via ArsTehnica, cei care au contribuit major la crearea jocului MaxPayne si-au deschis o noua firma de jocuri, de unde spera sa ne prinda iar in fata PC-urilor. Sa speram ca vor face o treaba la fel de buna ca si cu Max Payne 1 (the sequel nu a fost atat de bun).
Firma se numeste “Recoil Games” si din ce promit ei vor lansa jocuri pentru PC, Xbox 360 si PlayStation 3.
Sa vedem ceva curand, la fel de tare ca si MaxPayne.
Checking code coverage
Well, only writing unit tests is not enough – you still need to know how muchof the code your tests test. This is why a code coverage tool is great.
Clover is one of the tols used to compute code coverage and is now updating to a 2.0. The beta is on the site and it seems to add some interesting features:
- dril down in the test suite to see what statements each code provides
- Per-method coverage statistics
- Complexity statistics
- Simplified Ant Tasks
- Integrated historical reporting
- Aggregate package statistics
- Configurable report columns, column formats and column thresholds
- Improved runtime coverage recording performance
- New runtime configuration options to control coverage recording
Beautify your PC
For all of you that got bored of the default background images or the plain color, check out this site (via Micro Persuasion). It has some nifty pictures you can use – some lower quality images which you can download directly, and higher quality images that are available for registered users. Give’em a spin.
G did it again
Fortune magazine published the list of the best 100 companies to work for. And this year Google was eligible too (it exists for 7 years already). And, in googlish style, it jumped straight to number 1. So it must be a really darn cool place to work for. Check out the entire list here.
Unfortunately the company I work for – Adobe – went down a few places this year, hitting only 31. Check out the entire list here.
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