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A good programmer needs good tools and in web development this thing is particularly true mostly because programming is usually entertwined with design (despite heavy efforts for separation). Therefore, a good IDE is essential for a productive activity.

IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment and from the definition everyone should realize that an IDE is more than just a place to write code. A true IDE brings many tools in one place and I will ennumerate just the most prominent ones: code-completion, code-highlight (although this is present even in the simple code editors), code inspector, syntax check, diff capability, SVN/CVS support, remote development support, debugging, documentation support, formatting and refactoring. continue reading…

Lately I’ve been into a more classical music tendency. Not sure why, maybe because I needed something to relax and refresh my mind, something different than the constant metal pounding.

During this time I’ve ran into some hidden gems I’ve completely forgot on my CD’s, the G3 tour concerts. Personally I love the G3 concerts, where Satriani and two other guys jam together for a spectacular display of guitar mastery. continue reading…

It took me quite so time to get to reading Dan Brown’s most popular novels “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons”. Actually I had read the former a couple of years ago, but I only read the latter in the past days and I must say there can’t be two more different novels by one author. In fact, the two are quite the opposite in many ways. continue reading…

A helicopter was flying over Seattle when an electrical short disabled all of its navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter’s position and course to fly to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the helicopter’s window. In large letter, the pilot’s sign read: “Where Am I?”
The people in the building quickly drew a large sign, and held it in the building’s window. Their sign read: “You Are In a Helicopter.”
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.
After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how he determined their position.
The pilot said, “I knew that had to be the Microsoft building, because they gave me a technically correct, but completely useless answer.”

Once upon a time there was this sweet child who wanted to be a write. When asked what kind of writer he wanted to be, he answer simply: “a big writer”. When asked to defined what he mean by “big writer” he said “I want to write things that will influence people, that will push them through a wide range of emotions, that will make them scream, cry and writhe in anger!”.

So he went on and became a writer of error messages in Windows for Microsoft.