Archive for the 'Development' Category

Selecting Technology and Business

Technology changes fast. So fast that before one can decide which
technology to use, a new one is out to replace those in consideration.
At the same time, there are too many competing technologies. One can hardly find time to fully understand one, let alone so many of them.
Add
these all up and sprinkle in ample amount of […]

Trace and Merge changes with WinMerge

WinMerge is of those application that really make a great difference in development productivity.
It look daunting to use at first sight, but don’t let the look deceive you. Once you start using it, you wonder how you send those years not having something like it.

WinMerge is a visual text file differencing and merging tool. What […]

Inviting Developers to come China

This is an idea that we came out with to fight the lack of good PHP developers willing to work for us in China.
We are not loaded with cash. Problem is many companies are and we are find it tough to compete. In the spirit of entrepreneurship, we innovate and sidestep the challenge.
The idea is […]

Urgh!! Lost my content

My two hours worth of editing gone, when the computer hang. Only myself to blame for not hitting the save button more often.
I think the single most wanted feature for an AJAX based application must be auto-save. Not sure if any open source application has done that.
Too tired to rewrite the post now.

On to free development softwares

Since software developers are typically people in the know and are more savvy, my angle will be more of sharing and exploring ideas, tips and experiences. This is something new I’m trying.
First a quick round up of free softwares I am using and where the strong holds are still to be broken.

Category

Currently using

Free?

Open Source?

Alternative

Programming
PHP

Y

Y

 

Programming
Perl

Y

Y

 

Programming
Ruby

Y

Y

 

Version control
SVN

Y

Y

 

Version […]


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