I finally got to install the new 5.0 beta1 of Drupal, today. I have not played with it enough to get a full impression but there are several nice things that strike immediately: Smart and nice, web-based installation script. New, beautiful, highly ergonomic and very clean, amazingly appealing default theme - Themetastic. AND IT IS...

You should watch it to the end, even if you are an iPod fan :)\

I was never Dixie Chick\’s fan because I am not fan of Country music, but I AM HUGE FAN OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, so after what happened to Dixie Chicks and after even the promo trailer for a documentary about it was banned from several TV networks, I am going and buying their albums -...

I can not help the feeling of tremendous similarity between Cubism (as in art) and the Web 2.0 culture. Apart from the similarity in the aesthetics of the visual presentation (main principles being: simplicity and clarity), the two have a lot in common conceptually, as well. Wikipedia defines cubism as: “In cubist artworks, objects are...

Democrats won both House and Senate. This is a very nice day and I am very happy with the outcome of the elections. Not because I believe there is huge difference between the parties but because I believe consolidation of power within one party (which was the case up to now) is BAD. I also...

Although you can\‘t see a cursor when you click on text in Safari, it seems that one might be there. If you click on a position in a line of text in Safari, and then Shift-click somewhere else in the page\’s text, it will select all of the text from the first place you clicked...

Just installed latest iTunes update and my interface became German all of the sudden WTF? :(

I was debugging a piece of code today and stumbled upon a non-trivial problem, that IMHO is worth a post about. Let’s take a “simple” example where you want to find records in one table that are not present in another table. “Present” or “Non-present” is determined by comparision against a single column, in both...

The two are, probably, the most talked-about Web 2.0 wannabes. They have, obviously, been very lucrative for the respective creators, too - considering how much money they got for them. But, seriously - will they really make it? Are their business models valid? Or will they continue to suck out the profits off the generous...

“God is so clear, so close, so obvious and so simple - when you see God, you do not realize it is God. That’s why people do not believe in God. If God was somewhere else, far away, separate and high above, if God was not inside us - everybody would believe in God.” -...

Subversion Change Log Report Depending on your perspective, you may call it paranoia or staying on top of the software development process, but, in my experience architects/senior developers need to track changes to the version control. If you are a team lead, you HAVE to know what your developers are putting in the version control....

Developers often compain about explicit Exceptions, especially in a strongly typed language like Java, and how much real estate handling those takes up in source code. I have seen approaches when people try to avoid java.lang.Exception and fall back to java.lang.RuntimeException for most cases. Is that a good thing to do? RuntimeException is a valid...

I was jailed into my computer for the entire last week (and then some more) so I decided to take a long walk this morning. I dropped my car off in Courthouse, for oil change and walked back home. It is a beautiful, sunny day. As I was crossing the K bridge I could not...

So, T-Mobile or Cingular? I was about to switch to Cingular and now they leave me wondering, again. I still think Cingular is MUCH more solid of a partner than T-Mobile. I guess, the real question for Apple, right now, is - which one of them will be able to roll-out wider, better 3G coverage?...

This is a list of third-party widgets that are way too useful/necessary (at least, for geeks) to miss out on them: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/pemdas.html The original Apple dashboard calc just plain sucks. This one is awesome. A truly wonderful system monitor tool LOVE IT Cruise Control Regexes PHP Reference Quick Javadoc access Timer should be the best...