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That's a really interesting app for iPhone

Check these links out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRLLsj8DdAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i3Lut9OrOQ

Today I found some nice quotes that made me laugh

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
Tom Cargill

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian W. Kernighan

Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand

Source:

http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/08/17/favorite-programming-quotes/

Recently I setup my Zend Studio 5.5.1 to treat each file as a UNIX filetype.

This however made SVN to produce large diff files containing whitespaces.

Ignore whitespaces by using an external diff program.

[code]
svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -uw
[/code]

You can also add "di" alias this to your ~/.bashrc file.

[code]
alias di='svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -uw' # ignore whitespaces
[/code]

Credits go to: Akatombo Media

http://www.akatombo.com/en/comments/ignore_whitespace_in_a_subversion_diff/

Thanks.

Dear Readers,

This post is not going to be related to programming.
It's about an entry in Guitar Idol 2009.

Here is a quote from http://www.guitaridol.tv/about_guitar_idol

Guitar Idol is an online talent search to find the hottest ‘undiscovered’ guitarists in the world. Staged over 3 online Heats and a final online knockout round thousands of guitarists will battle for 12 places to perform live on the main stage at the massive London International Music Show in June 2009 and be crowned Worldwide Guitar Idol 2009

A very good friend of mine - Momchil Yordanov is participating in it.
Here is his entry for the competition.

In order to vote you must register at http://www.guitaridol.tv/user/register
The password will be emailed to you.
To cast your vote please go to http://www.guitaridol.tv/heat_1/entry/midnight_wire

Please vote for Momchil!

Slavi

Many times I find that writing your goals down help achieve them faster.
Dailyblogtips has inspired me to publish mine for 2009.

Here is a mix list of personal and profession goals:

1. Read 7 good books on algorithms and best software development practices
2. Start learning Java
3. Write 5 articles / week
4. Start another / contribute to an open source project
5. Workout 5-6 days / week
6. Go to a nice place for the weekend every 2-3 weeks
7. Dance Salsa like a Pro

Slavi

This morning I checked one of the forums that I participate from time to time and I found this funny quote by one of the moderators of v7n - StarLab:

Give a man a program, you frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, you frustrate him for a lifetime

The quote can be found at:
http://www.v7n.com/forums/forum-lobby/96939-quotes-day-2.html