Php Server Distribution for windows – XAMPP
XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.
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yasnippet – Google Code
YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates. Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more. Yasnippet system is inspired from TextMate’s template system. You can use a tool to import any TextMate …
ack — better than grep, a power search tool for programmers
ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl’s regular expressions. via ack — better than grep, a power search tool for programmers.
Dynamic languages troubles
I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.
I will try to fix some of the things said there, and to add also my two cents here :)
pyparsing review
Review of "Getting Started with Pyparsing", Copyright © 2008 O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596514235
Released: October 4, 2007
Will Zend slash rubyonrails?
Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: "Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about 5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?… do you? So you have dared to develop …
Better unix life: mass replace and xargs
Some unix tips and tricks for an easy life
Software Trends1
Software trends is a new set of small article I will write.
In this small pices I will sketch out the trends of the Software Industry related to web developmenet.
Let's give a look at the October 2006
B Wolf Version 1.1
BWolf version 1.1 has been relased!
I am happy to announce to all the world I have just relased the first stable release of BWolf.You can find it here.
You need to set up a settings_private.py for properly defining a secret cookie key. Happy (book) reading ;)