I’ve just tried VirtualBox and it simply rocks. I was using VMWare Player and got sick the lack of features. Yes, there’s VMWare Server, but it lacks desktop friendliness. VirtualBox provides the best of both worlds. (For those not familiar, VirtualBox is a virtualization software: it allows you to create virtual machines, so you can, [...]
The Sandbox WordPress theme is a nice bare bones theme which can be easily used as a base to your own themes (preferably with a style.css file only, following the zen). The only problem is that its development is kinda frozen and it does not support new WordPress 2.7 features like threaded and paged comments. [...]
I’ve just released the Linux version of Quivi: Quivi is an image viewer (specialized for comic/manga reading) for Windows which supports many file formats and compressed (zip, rar) files. It is aimed for fast & easy file browsing with keyboard or mouse. It was working on Linux for a while, but now it’s “official”. I’ve [...]
I’ve just released the new version of my image viewer and manga / comic reader, Quivi (only for Windows right now, but it will be ported to Linux and maybe to Mac). I’ve rewritten it from scratch, check my last post for more info. The new features added were: Prefetching of the next image Wallpaper [...]
Joel Spolsky, popular software engineering, said in this blog: (…) They [Netscape] did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. I agree, mostly. Many projects market that they’ve been “rewritten from scratch” as if it was something marvelous, and most [...]
Just for the record, in case anyone gets stuck with this issue. The “C:/Users/username/Documents” folder in Vista has three hidden junctions named “My Pictures”, “My Music” and “My Videos” which point to the folders “Pictures”, “Music” and “Video” inside the “C:/Users/username” folder. But they have the “List folder / read data” permission denied for all [...]