I do lots of SharePoint development, and the standard Windows tools really rub me the wrong way ( Read more... )

From a really detailed and approachable post by Gustavo Duarte: The text segment also maps your binary file in memory, but writes to this area earn your program a Segmentation Fault. This helps prevent pointer bugs, though not as effectively as avoiding C in the first place.

PS. I wish Windows had a tiling window manager, this explorer thing sucks

I'd really like to use CsharpRepl on Windows XP, but I am having much trouble compiling with cygwin. Has anyone successfully built CsharpRepl on Windows XP and could give me some tips?

I wonder if I can fake Super and Hyper on Windows with the extended Shift states mentioned in http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/inputinwin.mspx ?

Developing on a Virtual Machine is painfully slow, even though VMWare feels faster than Virtual PC ( Read more... )

Today I learned that I have to get approval/permission to install software that did not come with my work laptop.
So I wrote up a short list:

• Emacs 23.0.60.1 / EmacsW32 1.58, everyone's favorite open source editor.
  
• 7-zip, a compression utility.
  
• Chandler, a PIM written in Python.
  
• GHC, the Haskell compiler.
  
• GIMP, an open source Photoshop replacement ( Read more... )

I have cygwin/X installed on my work laptop, and I can happily run X apps.
But I can't figure out how to setup a network connection to my N800 so I can ssh in and run those applications on my desktop.
Does anyone know how to setup Windows XP as a bluetooth host for a Personal Area Network?
Will that be enough to let me ssh into my N800?

The best command line shell for windows is: zsh on cygwin.

I admit, I'm on a rant roll at the moment about lack of functionality in windows.

titivillus, I don't see how you can do development on Windows without extreme pain :-)

The best image editor for Windows is obviously... the GIMP, aka the Gnu Image Manipulation Program ( Read more... )

I just got an external hard drive for work ( Read more... )