Photoshop in its upcoming release is adding a new feature called “Content Aware Fill”. Have a look at it

I started my career working in Linux and continue to do so. I recently bought a laptop with Windows 7. I like windows 7 for bringing back the performance which was lost in Vista.

I am so much used to writing code in vim and using shell for doing all development that I felt I need to look around for making windows 7 my development box.

You might argue I should use cygwin, I wanted to use native applications.

Search is ON

Command Shell:

I looked around for possible shell for windows. Windows comes packaged with cmd.exe and powershell. Powershell seemed like it will fit the bill for my requirement. My major requirement is to run python, vim, mercurial and any other software needed for development.

Editor:

I have been using vim for past 7 years and could not think of using any other editor for development. I searched whether I can get vim for windows. There are multiple versions available for Windows and found vim for win32 console, just what I wanted (http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc).

Add the editor to the PATH.

If you use some other editor, I am sure it would have been ported.

Other utilities:

Other unix utilities like grep, awk, sed, less, tee, tar and more are used in day to day work. I thought basic development environment will be complete only after I have those in my laptop. Fortunately, most everything is ported to windows and is available @ gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. If you are lazy to download packages one by one, there is another project in sourceforge which takes care of automating the download process (http://getgnuwin32.sourceforge.net/). All you need to do is download one package, extract it and run download.bat and install.bat found. Voila, all command line utilities are in your system. Check readme file for further information.

Thanks to everyone who worked on porting these software to windows, I have a workable environment in windows!

I am not claiming that this setup can replace a development environment setup on linux. This setup helps me do what i wanted to do. I feel at home if i use shell thats all :).

IBM presented at December 2009 the Solution Edition for Cloud Computing, a solution offering for large enterprise customers providing the automation and management framework necessary to get started with cloud computing. This solution provides the key components for cloud computing:

# A foundation for the cloud offering massive virtualization, resiliency and security capability provided by IBM System z
#  Automation and management capability for the lifecycle of cloud computing services provided by IBM Tivoli software

This solution offers customers a framework for cloud computing, but in order to realize true value a cloud computing workload is desirable.

Fedora 12 is out in few mirrors.

one of the mirror

http://fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br/linux/releases/12/

Full mirror list

Few new features of fedora 12 are

• Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd
• Set Empathy as the default IM client
• Re-base to GNOME 2.28
• Rebase to KDE 4.3 and offer new features such as DeviceKit support
• Lots of new virtualization features
• Add support to Fedora for the Moblin Core NetBook/NetTop/MID desktop environment
• Rakudo is an implementation of the Perl 6 specification for the Parrot virtual machine
• Update libtheora to the 1.1 release
• Changing the base architecture to i686 and optimizing for current 32-bit processors

Complete feature list here

Google has released a plugin called “Google Chrome Frame” for Internet Explorer which converts IE into Google Chrome. It makes sense for Google to target IE, because it is browser with huge market share.

Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

* Start using open web technologies - like the HTML5 canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
* Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

But, what is Google telling Microsoft by releasing this plugin?

get your copy here