Fired up Mozilla Thunderbird this morning, to find an update for Mozilla Lightning, the calendar plug-in for their e-mail client. I had installed it before and absolutely hated it mainly because of the crappy/ugly interface. The new interface, however, is really slick. Thanks open source!
Hosted Source Control, Bug, Issue Tracking
I’ve been using Freepository to host my current projects, but Unfuddle looks good enough to switch to, and their plans seem pretty decent. I had been getting pretty sick of the current issue trackers I’ve been using, which always seem to be butt ugly.
Google Rankings be damned, I will win!
I’m still only on page 3 of Google searches for “zvi”
I will win.
Programming Fonts
Programmers spend all day looking at fixed-width text. The least we could do is make the text something other than Courier New.
Uploading CakePHP Code via Ant
I’ve been doing developing in CakePHP, which is a pretty awesome rapid development framework, that tries (with 90% success) to give die-hard PHP developers a fast way to build up applications (similar to Ruby on Rails). I’ve only gotten my feet wet with it so far, but I can see it really going places. One thing that always annoys me is developing code on my own machine, and...