Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Hardy Heron on Acer Aspire 2920

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu with phpPgAdmin

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Setting up default installations of Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL is really easy, I’m using a Gutsy setup and writing this in a terminal:... Read More

Uncommon Web vs Weblocks

Monday, January 21st, 2008

First of all, this article does not compare actual features of the two frameworks. Only the getting-started process, this will probably be enough information for you to decide in any case, just read on and you’ll understand what I mean.... Read More

From dual boot to virtual machine with Ubuntu and Windows

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I just shut down my dual boot by reformatting the Linux partition and running Ubuntu in a virtual machine instead. This is the walkthrough:... Read More

XOOPS at first glance

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

A few days ago I had a look at XOOPS.... Read More

CLisp and Cusp at first glance

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Yesterday I thought I should try out clisp. It was the reddit controversy that opened my eyes to this language. If you don’t know, the guys behind reddit tried to create the site with clisp but they opted to do it in Python in the end. It’s that decision that caused all the ruccus.... Read More

eZ Components at first glance

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Through phpdeveloper.org I just discovered eZ Components. My first thought was how can yet another php library help me? Or more precisely since I’m a user of the Zend Framework and Smarty, is there anything in eZ that I can use to augment my current setup with?... Read More

Dual monitor setup with Samsung and ViewSonic

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I’ve had a 22″ Samsung for quite a while now but at work I have a dual monitor setup and that is very neat when doing web development as you can dedicate one screen to (insert your favourite IDE here) and one to a browser (mostly ie6 since that sucker is a real time gobbler).... Read More