Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

I'm not a Linux pro, I've used Windows way more than Linux, but with this new netbook I got I decided I want to use Linux.
I tried some distributions and ended up with this one, which is pretty nice, community is good, and also is documentation, everything works nicely, the webcam, mouse, wireless...
Right now I'm getting used to Linux, I thought it would be harder though, anyways I still want to know more, like, what is folder /opt for, and why that folder distribution, what are them for, and more, I'll read a book :)
I'm working on akaikiwi and at the same time rebuilding an old forum-like software I had with this new framework, I'll correct akaikiwi if there's a bug, and probably also add new functionality.
I'ts gonna be a very nice script I might distribute, right now though, I'm still doing the layout, I'm using Yui3 CSS Grids, and I'll probaly use the Yui3 javascript library also, I'll write more about that once I use it more, also more on akaikiwi :)
I really think I should do some benchmarks and compare with other frameworks, would be very interesting, I'm pretty sure akaikiwi is really fast.

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More on akaikiwi

I'm mostly working on fixing bugs right now, not much on adding functionality, as I'm not at home right now.
I'm working on my new netbook with linux mint, so I'm testing how everything works on linux. Once I finish seeking and repairing bugs I'll work on some more new features.
Akaikiwi is going very nice so far :)

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akaikiwi

So I've been working on akaikiwi a lot lately, I took a little break now as I'm not home for a week, but I'm working on documentation and adding issues now :)
akaikiwi is a PHP MVC framework, focused on beeing lightweight and fast. It's going really nicely so far.
You can see the repo here: http://code.google.com/p/akaikiwi/
I'm working on the wiki right now, it's still kind of far from first release, but it might not take that long, it just needs some fixes, a bit new features and a lot of testing.
Once that's done, I'll consider the first release :)
For now, I'll work on the wiki, you can check it to see the nice features and how to use it so far, you can also pull it from the repo if you wanna test it. I'll list some features here.

Features

• Very easy to learn
• Lightweight
• ORM
• Very good compatibility with limited hosting accounts, works with PHP 5.2
• Awesome performance
• Command-line CRUD generator
• Easy to extend
• Debugging tools (profiling)
• Cache
• Simple :)

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Mootools Multiple Slideshow

Hello! It's been a long long time since last update, anyways! I have something interesting to share...
I've been playing around with Mootools (I highly recommend it!) lately, due to something at work, but I'm really loving it so far, one problem I had though is that I needed a very simple Slideshow, no problem, I found a nice jQuery script, but it became messy when I needed to add another Slideshow, the easy solution is just duplicate the whole code but, that's not nice at all! So I decided to give it a try, and well here it is!
You can see a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/fedekun/WfqHX/
Just click on "Run" to start it.

Although I higly recommend you click on that link and see for yourself, I'll just embed all the code here too.

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DarkBASIC Pro

So, as DarkBASIC Pro is free now, I decided it may worth trying it. I tried DarkGDK and Blitz before.
What I love about DBPRO are the commands.
They are pretty nice, I'm playing with networking right now and it works pretty well, also the documentation, for someone who actually can program in a competent language, is very easy to understand and helps a lot, you don't really need much more documentation than the one the editor's help documents give you.
That's another thing, the editor is pretty nice :)
I didn't try 3D stuff yet as I do not know much about it, but what I tried so far seems very good.
The language, of course, has it's limitations, even more than others BASIC dialects, but it's nice enough as to let you make games.
Pretty "big" games have been made with the language, so it's possible, and easy to pick up.
If you really hate DBPRO language you can use GDK which is basically all DBPRO specific functions in available in C++.
Also, DBPRO uses DirectX 9.0c and they may port it to DX10, which would be pretty nice indeed.
As it's aimed to beginners help at the forums and functions itself in the language are pretty easy to use, and one of the best choices to begin game programming.
I'm even considering making a guide about it, I'll surely make some tutorials which I may add there if i do make it :)
So! I'm playing with game programming here, planning a nice series of tutorials to share the world, wish me luck!

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