JavaScript is hot commodity for server and client side web development. But when it comes to command line programming it is unlikely to ditch the likes of Python and Ruby for JavaScript. I don’t have the luxury of picking my toolset at work. I’m a business consultant with no access to anything beyond the essential…
This is an unusual topic to be discussed in my software-oriented blog, but this morning I was staring at my wireless keyboard and I just thought how it (along with its companion mouse) made my life easier. I use a wireless keyboard and a wired mighty mouse (broken 3 wireless mice already and I can’t…
Most people use versioning systems like Subversion, Mercurial, and git to maintain their code while working on software and web projects. There are also hosted solutions like github and bitbucket providing developers with more features than a traditional version control environment. But sometimes you just want to keep your code in a safe place and…
Many people use RSS news feeds to read the latest updates from their favorite websites synchronized in a single place. It is much more productive than surfing around and reading content surrounded by ads and useless stuff. With the subscription list increasing in number, having a powerful new reader with a good set of features…
In the previous post, I talked about EventBox and how it can make your feed-loaded life easier. But here’s the thing: It’s again skimming through 100s of feeds. Could I be lazier?! Well, there is a way that you can merge all (or a particular group of them) together and filter them against some keywords….
All that buzz and the load of information attacking us by social media and news aggregated from different sources, seem overwhelming. One of the greatest inventions of the internet age was news feeds (Atom, RSS, …) that help us avoid navigating through 10s and soemtimes 100s of websites everyday. It is sometimes really hard to…