January 4, 2007 – 12:04 pm
As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will
Finish the new design of this site – [...]
November 6, 2006 – 7:26 pm
We @ Karova are hiring talented developers. We’re advertising on CWJobs and on the newly created jobs.joelonsoftware.com.
C# Software Developer on CWJobs.co.uk
Software Developer on jobs.joelonsoftware.com
I managed to grab a screenshot of Karova on the front page of the jobs.joelonsoftware.com site.
November 4, 2006 – 8:47 pm
I was very interested in going to Linux World this year. There were quite a few speakers and presentations I thought would be very interesting. I had hinted to my boss that I wanted to go but as we are currently a microsoft house, it was not really going to happen.
I figured I could do [...]
November 4, 2006 – 8:46 pm
instLux, installing linux on a machine with no cd or floppy drive
I was very bored of my toshiba libretto L5 as WinXP was getting crazy slow on it so I never bothered to use it. I wanted to put Ubuntu on it but the live cd or the install would not recognise the PCMCIA cd [...]
November 4, 2006 – 8:24 pm
In planning software projects I have found that there is a fine line between planning too much and too little. The worst of course is planning too little where you just start coding like a headless chicken. There’s a nice parable that illustrates this perfectly.
October 27, 2006 – 10:13 pm
I’ve been looking around at laptops for a while. I want the ultimate laptop.
I want Core 2 Duo or similar AMD
At least 2GB RAM
A fast hard drive (7200rpm)
Dual display out, DVI and VGA
Ability to run 2 external 20″ monitors
At least 15.4″ monitor
Very good build quality
DVD writer
Onboard Wifi
Optional: Bluetooth
Optional: Card reader
Does anybody know of such a [...]
October 26, 2006 – 2:44 pm
I am a complete jEdit fanatic and it always has a place on my taskbar. jEdit is ver clever when running multiple versions each instance communicates over TCP IP so that all instances are identical. What if you don’t want that and want to have different file open in different instances of jEdit (or if [...]
August 31, 2006 – 9:55 pm
As part of Karova’s expansion, we are looking at taking on 2 more graduate developers. If you want to apply, you’ll need at least a 2:1 in a technical degree, knowledge of object oriented programming techniques, XML and XSLT, web standards and CSS. C# would be benifical, as would a good grasp of IIS. If [...]
August 25, 2006 – 3:03 pm
We are trying out ActiveCollab @ Karova instead of Basecamp. There was quite a few problems to get it working though. Mainly as it was PHP on IIS methinks. The first error was that none of the class files were not being loaded by autoloader as it didn’t know where to look so I had [...]
