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 ...

Prelude I’ve recently upgraded all my systems to Fedora 15. The default installation is not very usable for some tasks for several reasons - like CD size limitations and software patents for insta...

Prelude So far in the Java.next() series I’ve discussed only languages that were engineered from the start to run on the JVM (Groovy, Scala and Clojure). However, a lot of good programming languag...

Prelude Back in the day when Ruby wasn’t particularly popular outside Japan there was only one book in English about Ruby - “Programming Ruby”, affectionately called the Pickaxe by most Rubyists. ...

Prelude This is the third part of the series of Java.next(). Last time we’ve discussed the merits of Scala - an OO language with a strong emphasis on functional and parallel programming. Today we’...

Zenburn is a popular colour theme for vim, developed by Jani Nurminen. It’s my personal belief (and probably that of many of its users I presume) that it’s one of the best low contrast themes out t...

Prelude This is the second post from my series dedicated to modern programming languages for the Java platform. Last time we’ve discussed the Groovy programming language, which is a member of the ...

Java.next() In a series of articles labeled “Java.next()” I’ll be discussing modern alternatives to the Java programming language for use with the Java Platform. This is the first installment of t...