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While I’m a huge fan of Eclipse IDE, I recently discovered Aptana. Aptana is build on Eclipse but optimized for use with Ajax libraries and scripting languages like JavaScript, Ruby and PHP. Like they state it themselves. And you know what? It is as they say. For so far I tried it out. It works really smooth and since I’m used to eclipse it doesn’t take 30 minutes to know how everything works.
If you’re a web developer aptana is worth a try.
Why o Why….
When you do a search on your computer using Windows XP built in search mechanism, XP uses explorer.exe to execute your search. For some reason this process has a high priority thread setting and since searching is a reasonably intensive job it starts to use a lot of cpu time. But WTH! Does every thing else has to freeze because of that? Bill seems to say yes, I say NO Continue reading “Searching With WindowsXP”
In every major city there is at least 1 or more escalator in use for public transport (duh!). It’s a convenience staircase. The main purpose is: ‘it makes you move faster’.
How do a lot of people think about an escalator?
After analyzing people that use staircases (in Brussels), I came to the conclusion that the majority of users think of an escalator like this: “Hey this stair is moving me up (or down). Why the f*** would I move myself.”. Continue reading “How to use escalators”