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29 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Leaving PHP for a new love; Python over Perl and Ruby

Ok, it’s a corny title. But I had a new project that was primarily a commandline (CLI) application, but also had GUI components. I also needed this to be able to work in Linux and Windows. PHP just doesn’t do the trick for these kind of things.
I’ve got about 8 years of LAMP type programming [...]

15 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Free VMWare like virtualization with VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a free GPL virtual machine system that is comparable to VMWare. The interface and usage will be familar to VMWare. Initial look at performance seems comparable.
According to their website “VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer
for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is
now the only professional-quality virtualization solution [...]

15 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

My Favorite Free Internet Radio Service

Shoutcast has been around for awhile and it’s a great service. They are
basically a listing service for free internet radio streams. Shoutcast doesn’t
provide the music, they just list the services that do.
When you
go to their website it defaults by listing the top stations, but you
can also search for particular genre or a specific station. They [...]

15 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Scribefire, killer blog writting tool for Firefox

For my first blog post ever on blogspot I decided to try the ScribFire Firefox add-on.
Overall
I’ve been looking for a Blog service and tool that I could use from
Linux and Windows that would allow me to get my thoughts out in a
minimum amount of technical effort. There are, of course tons of tools
out there. But [...]