Via this tweet I came across this insightful comment over at Slashdot.  Quoting in its entirety: A bit off topic, but you triggered something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. That “spark” is fluency. I swtiched jobs from being a computer programmer to being an ESL teacher in Japan. Japan is somewhat famous … Continue reading On teaching programming languages
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I switched my default browser a few times already. I went from Mozilla Firefox and Opera to Google Chrome and back a few times. Recently, I’ve been very satisfied with Google Chrome. The main advantage of it is that its super fast. And … Continue reading Firefox 4 is awesome!
I am currently working on a rather large project which is based on CakePHP framework. Â In order to simplify the task, I’ve broken down the whole application into a number of CakePHP plugins. Â Now, however, I want to enable/disable plugins on the fly. Â After a brief search around I couldn’t find how to do that. … Continue reading Disable and enable CakePHP plugins on the fly
Download Squad suggests that group messaging is going to be the next big thing in mobile communications: The next big thing in mobile communications seems to be group messaging, and that’s no real surprise. If we take a look at the currently entrenched communication platforms, not many of them do more than messaging one-to-one or one-to-a-few … Continue reading Group messaging is the next big thing
Those of you who know me, know that I am a big fan of Flickr. Â I’ve been using it for years, and I have more than 10,000 photos upload there. Â I am also a big fan of Google. Â And even so, I ignored and disregarded their Picasa service. Â Why? Â Because it is boring. Flickr is … Continue reading Giving Picasa a try