Bjarne Stroustrup: “The purpose of a programming language is to help build good systems, where “good” can be defined in many ways. My brief definition is, correct, maintainable, and adequately fast.” Let’s see… We will skip the “adequately fast” part since I have no idea what adequate would be for Mr. Stroustrup and besides fast/slow...

“Innovation is “a meta-stable entity”. Nothing will kill it faster than trying to manage it, predict it, and put it on a timeline.” Vishva Dixit, vice president for research of Genentech

“The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” “To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair...

Today is the day! After much waiting Drupal 5 is released. This is smoking hot release of a great open-source portal system and I have no doubt it will make Drupal even more popular.

Even though I have some Assembly language under my belt and have worked with, what I like to see as, wide variety of programming languges, I am still from the spoiled generation that learnt object-oriented programming before calculus and got on Java bandwagon early on. I was fortunate to have had privilege to work with...

Drupal files have .module and .install extensions. Eclipse PHP Development Toolkit (PDT) does not recognize those extensions as PHP files so you have to tweak couple of settings to make PDT be more helpful when you develop with Drupal. In Preferences - General - Editors- File Associations, associate *.module and *.install with PHP Editor. In...

So, apparently the main intention of Cisco, in regard with the controversy surrounding Apple\’s use of Cisco brand - iPhone, is not cash. According to Chandler, the SVP of Cisco they want interoperability in exchange. Interoperability in exchange of brand sharing? Wow. Have you ever even heard something like that? I think it says a...

Sony\’s new LocationFree Wireless Base Station looks like the sexiest gadget of the new year. Finally, something original and nice in the mobile home entertainment :) Well done, Sony!

“A boss isn’t paid more than a subordinate because he or she is better. A boss is paid more than a subordinate because the boss has greater responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is to stand up for people when it’s necessary and to shield them from things they shouldn’t have to deal with.” Fiorina, Carley,...

I hope everybody had a good Santa this year and if it was not what you haped - just remember, it can always be worse :) A little smile from the past to you, from me\

If you want full control and flexibility over sharing folders from OS X to Windows: sudo vi /etc/smb.conf Add new section: [Hawaii]comment = Hawaii Photospath = /Volumes/Smth/subfolderbrowseable = yesread only = nocreate mode = 0750 Uncheck/check Windows File Sharing in System Preferences->Sharing, Services tab to restart it.

Internet Explorer is the worst browser ever, no doubt about that, yet, alas, it is still the most used one. If you use Drupal you probably want to use the neat JSCalendar plugin, since it creates a nice date-picker for date fields. Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box version of it does not show datepicker icon in IE (it works just...

I was looking for a small, nice, light, PHP-based IMAP webmail, today. Open-source, of course. I have been using SquirrelMail for the past couple of years and it was doing a decent job, more or less. For some completely unknown reason it stopped functioning, last week, though. We could still check e-mail but Compose screen...

One of the most useful Firefox plugins for a developer: \ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3208/