Prelude I’ve started my personal blog some three years ago. Back then in was hosted on wordpress.com and was called Devcraft (https://devcraft.wordpress.com). I had a lot of interesting (at least ...

Prelude Heroku is an amazing cloud hosting solution. It’s extremely well documented, very easy to start with, very stable and provides you with the option to use free hosting for some small applic...

Prelude Last month I’ve blogged about the exciting things are coming up in Emacs 24. What I failed to mention originally is that although Emacs 24 is slated for a Spring 2012 (tentatively) release...

Prelude Recently I’ve decided to have a look at the current development version of Emacs - namely Emacs 24. I was quite impressed with the work done by the development team so far so I decided to ...

Prelude I’ve recently been using Debian a lot (mostly Debian Wheezy (aka testing)), So I’ve decided to adapt my Fedora 15 post installation setup & tips article for Debian. Here are some of th...

Prelude I’ve recently started a new job at an American start-up company. My position in the company is the one of Technical Lead - the person responsible for the selection of technologies around w...

Read this with an open mind. Prelude A few days back I wrote a somewhat controversial article called, “The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop”. While many readers seem to ha...

Disclaimer This post is a bona fide rant. It might provoke some controversy, but I frankly don’t care. Prelude I’m generally known as one of the biggest supporters of GNU/Linux. I’ve taught cour...

Emacs 23.2 will pick up the default GNOME monospaced font, so if you’re a GNOME user - you’re basically covered. If you’re not - don’t worry. The simplest way to set the Emacs font is just to add ...

I’ve been a GNU/Linux user for quite some time now and a Fedora user for just as long. The first distribution that I ever used was Fedora 2 and even though I’ve used extensively other distros I’ve ...