I installed Ubuntu 9.04 this morning and for my delight I had proper wireless connection with just a few clicks. The nightmare is gone. Another great improvement in this release is performance. It only takes a few seconds to boot. A new OS release running faster on the same machine? Great.
The only drawback for me is that the Intel Graphics built into my laptop is not supported. No fancy visual effects right now. I have to check it later though. I’m using a Sony Vaio VGN-NR330AE that I bought while I was still living in Brazil.
As noted on my previous post I’m back to Gnome. KDE versions 4.0 and 4.1 didn’t work for me although KDE 4.2 seems to be really good. I might be wrong but I just have the feeling that Gnome is more stable. I also noted that I spend most of my time with 3 tools: Emacs, Firefox and the terminal. The first 2 are built upon GTK and the 3rd is great at both graphical platforms.
I like tech novels but I’m not always on the cutting edge of the books. I just finished reading Microserfs from Douglas Coupland. The book is from 1995 so I’m almost 15 years late. Shame on me.
The narrative is in the form of diary entries which guides you into a very personal and introspective reading. The plot starts in Redmond, Washington then moves to the Silicon Valley. This was really attractive for me since I’m now living in California. It was great to read about the cities, places and roads across the valley and be there the next day.
Can’t wait to order more books from Coupland!
It is time to celebrate. Awake Autoresponder version 1.3.3 is ready! Some minor adjustments have been made including a better leads list visualization, which was a request from most users.
I also took some time to improve my bash programming skills. I wrote a few scripts to build the final product in a zip file. Shipping has never been easier.
http://awakeautoresponder.com
Just launched the Awake Autoresponder website. The address is:
http://awakeautoresponder.com.
I needed something simple that I could hack later. I’m playing with Rails and Ruby a lot and that is why I decided for CakePHP as a framework for the autoresponder website. One server language is enough mess for a project. So let’s just keep PHP in this domain.
Seems that CakePHP and Rails share the same philosophy. Good bet because I never tried CakePHP before but could have it up and running with the main webpage in less than 15 min in the production server.
I’m also trying the YUI CSS files. Seems nice although there is a small bug with IE6 for the columns width. If you are using IE6 you have been warned.
Did not add any JS library yet but I’m sure I’ll be working with JQuery. Awesome.
