Evernote is an excellent note-taking service. Â But it lacks any kind of templating, which is a pretty much required feature once you have more than a few hundred notes. Â It’s nice to see that some people realize this enough to create alternative services. Â Transpose is one such attempt. I haven’t tried it yet, but judging … Continue reading Transpose – structured notes alternative to Evernote
There is going to be a Free Software / Open Source conference “Freedom and Technology” this Saturday, October 3rd (18:00-21:00) in Cyprus University of Technology, in Limassol, Cyprus.  Organizers are the same people you know from the Ubuntu CY community.  I’m going to do a talk titled “The practical guide to Open Source participation”.  Slides will … Continue reading Conference : Freedom and Technology
“Five Linux-Ready, Cost-Effective Server Control Panels” reviews 5 some alternatives to cPanel, which, they say, is rather expensive. Â My beef with cPanel is not the price, but the technical merit. Â Even though I love the fact that it is written in Perl, I don’t agree with its “let me handle everything” approach. cPanel installs all … Continue reading Five Linux-Ready, Cost-Effective Server Control Panels
I’m saving this here for current and future generations of programmers: This is a copy-paste of this gist, referenced from this blog post. Read and share both, for the better world.
Fixing Twitter – here’s a reasonable rant on what’s wrong with Twitter and how to fix it.  Product managers and marketing people should definitely read. Second–and this one is obvious to almost everyone–Twitter needs to focus on realtime events. When I open Twitter during a major debate in the US, or when a bomb has … Continue reading Fixing Twitter