Monthly Archives: April 2008

gedit, An Awesome Text Editor

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Julien Lecomte

TextMate has gained a lot of traction in the past few years, especially among web developers. Ruby developers swear by it for some reason. I don’t have MacOS X at home so I don’t use TextMate. Instead, my favorite text … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) First Impressions

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Julien Lecomte

Last night, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Release Candidate on my laptop (a HP dv2000 with a dual core AMD64 2.8GHz CPU and 2GB RAM) I had used Ubuntu in the past (versions 7.04 and 7.10) on … Continue reading →

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JavaScript: The Good Parts

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Julien Lecomte

Douglas Crockford just published his first book titled JavaScript: The Good Parts. After reading this book, some of you may be left with the impression that Douglas is always complaining about some aspect of this very popular programming language. However, … Continue reading →

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