http://devplant.net Plant for developers or developement plant Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:55:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently Brian Aker announced that he will develop RDBMS trimmed especially to use with web-apps. It will be named Drizzle. Features of Drizzle What will be changed in Drizzle in comparison to MySQL? First of all, whole architecture will be changed. Drizzle will be not monolithic chunk of software like its predecessor, ... http://devplant.net/2008/09/01/where-are-you-going-mysql/ Intro I've "always" wanted to have a very small notebook, to use it as a replacement for a PDA, but with more traditional keyboard and possibility to run normal applications. It was difficult, because until few months ago small notebooks were very expensive. The only affordable ones were 3 years old ... http://devplant.net/2008/07/28/msi-wind-here-it-comes/ I wanted to share few files from my home server computer, so I've decided to run FTP server on that box. I've chosen not to use SFTP/SCP because I don't like the way progress reporting is handled - progress bars are updated only after quite large chunk of data are ... http://devplant.net/2008/07/24/private-ftp-server/ Today I've read article "Defending PHP" by Jim R. Wilson. He begins saying Ugh. I am so tired of defending PHP. And I'm saying "I am so tired of people defending PHP". Why? First of all, if everything is OK, the language defends itself, and if lot of people ... http://devplant.net/2008/01/25/defending-php-or-not/ Everyone knows that "higher level management" like to look at colorful things, especially on PowerPoint presentations, and source codes are most boring things you can include in documentation. How to help it? You can colorize your codes. There are many software packages that can "beautify" sources. Most of them have one ... http://devplant.net/2007/08/27/syntax-coloring/ Recently bashing through source code of some CMS, I've found interesting JavaScript library. It appeared that it is also delivered separately. Its purpose is to create nice-looking rounded corners - here you can see design created only using this software. Nifty Corners Cube, because that's how it's called, is combination ... http://devplant.net/2007/07/02/rounded-corners/ Auto-closing brackets and strings in Eclipse is very useful, but it works fine only for typing new code. When editing, it's really annoying when you want to enclose some existing string with apostrophes and Eclipse engine enters two marks instead of one. Great thing about Eclipse is that it's very configurable. ... http://devplant.net/2007/05/21/annoying-eclipse/ Time passes by. For a programmer, each year means a lot of projects, especially projects which are never published. I've gathered some of mine and decided to show them. Each project has its own trac manager, so finally I'll be able to collect feedback for them. As I have many ... http://devplant.net/2007/05/17/hello-world/