Fedora + Xfce on my netbook

I have to admit, I'm suprised with the compatibility and the performance and stability of Fedora on my Netbook, it works even nicer than Ubuntu (or Xubuntu), I'm pretty happy with it :)
I had no major problems getting up and running even though this is the first time I try another distro than Ubuntu or any Ubuntu variation.

Here's an screenshot of my little netbook screen right now

I still have to add some more customization and programs but it's looking lovely so far :)
Definetely reccommended for netbooks, works awesome with Intel Atom processor.

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Gedit

So I've been using linux way more lately, because of my new netbook, so I've been playing with Gedit too, it's surprisingly nice, very nice alternative to Textmate and free, it can do pretty much anything Textmate can, and it works on Windows and Linux.
I really recommend it, the completation function is very nice, also de snippets.
I've been using it a lot since I've been working on akaikiwi and aoi pantsu, it's doing great so far.

Editing some Yui 3 Javascript

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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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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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CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework, which is pretty fast and easy to learn.
Not many years ago I didnt really care much about frameworks, i had my little nice set of functions I collected during the years, and I didn't have much problems editting and creating new sites, but for some reason I decided to try frameworks.
I have always liked open source, so I really liked the idea of people sharing their awesome functionality, and if you dont have much experience with MVC starting with CodeIgniter is a great option! It takes like 30 minutes to read the begginer documentation, and then you have awesome reference, you may develop a bit slower first, but later you will do it faster! And in a very scalable way!
What is nice about using frameworks is that if it's a project where more than one person works (Including MVC advantages already) you know what to edit, you know what to do already, no need to lose time reading what other programmer structure is!
It has many many advantages, I will just say, i recommend it!
I have used for my last projects and it works flawlessly! I also like sharing my own libraries :) I made an excel plugin, to export an xls file.
Anyways! If you develop on PHP, i would say this is a very nice tool!

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Color Getter

About
This is a little program I made for my girlfriend (Alba ♥!) and i really liked helping her, also the program ended up very nicely, she had a very good idea!
The program is in spanish but you can make an idea easily :)

What is it about?
Well my girlfriend had a problem, she sometimes wanted to get the color of something on her screen, but it takes way too long to take a screenshot, open photoshop, zoom and then extract the color, so this program makes it easy! It's simplistic as i like my programs to be!

Here you can see the main window, you just click there to take a screenshot, a new window will open with the screenshot and more options!

That is a screenshot of my desktop (Yes, i use Windows XP) just click anywhere to get the color, your cursor will change to a crossair, you have three buttons there also, you can zoom with those if its hard to get the color you want!
You can get my program clicking the following links:

• Download .exe format for Window
• Downlad .jar for any OS (deletted by mediafire, will re-upload soon)

Hope you find it useful! Special thanks to my girlfriend, Alba, for her great idea! ♥

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GoFTP

GoFTP is my new favourite FTP client, for one main reason, its fast, and i mean FAST, you can see a chart at GoFTP website but for me that i have to work with a lot of joomla sites, download and upload them, it's very nice, i definitely reccommend it.
Quoting GoFTP website here are a list of nice features

• "Instant Connect" Technology
• "Instant Directory" Technology
• Multi-connection transfers for maximum bandwidth utilization !!
• On the fly file compression for amazing transfer speeds !!
• You simply have to try this FTP program to believe it.

Just try it, you wont regret ;)

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