Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

Either I am very lucky this month or I am doing something right. First, Google recruiter asked me if I was interested in working for them. And now I got another offer from someone else. This time though there is nothing major. A one time task to transfer a bunch of blogs from Nucleus CMS to Wordpress. Since I wrote the script to do migrate my blog, they figured that I might be the right person to help them out.

I am glad. I am glad that my blog starts to bring in a little potential. I am glad that people find stuff that I do useful. I am glad that there is yet another example of how Open Source Software works. I just did something for myself. Than I published it. Few people found it useful and customized it to their needs. And now someone else found it who don’t have the skills or time necessary to do the necessary changes, so they are willing to pay me to do it for them.

That feeds my enthusiasm and helps me both to develop and advocate Open Source Software.

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-09-25

• Hacking Firefox: Navigation and Tab Browsing
  Tagged as: article browsers configuration firefox howto mozilla reference tips tricks
• NOOFS — Network Object Oriented File System
  Tagged as: databases filesystems linux networking
• ONLamp.com: RMS: The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay
  Tagged as: concepts gnu gpl interview legal linux oss reading rms software

This is one of those things that make me love and feel proud for open source software - innovation. I came across this new way of software development here. In reads like this:

As of today my new hobby is to run up to a developer and say “Hey, I have an icon that I need a program for!”

Beat that you miserable top-to-bottom emptyheads!

id Software has released the source code for its Quake III Arena for the public under the GPL. That is even before Quake 4 has been released! If you’re interested, you can download the source code here.

Now game writers all over the world can unite and produce some really cool games for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Yeah!

If there was no Perl, I would probably to choose bash and make most of the times. Come to think of it, I am glad that Perl is around.