I\'ve been programming in both Java and C# for some time now, and so far I haven\'t seen a brief summary or comparison of these technologies, so I made my own one.

There are some things that make compatibility with WindowsXP sightly more difficult

The compatibility with Vista is not as good as it is mentioned.

Microsoft is feeling confident about it's next Windows release, claiming that it'll be in RTM to the end of 2009.

After more than half a year of full version of Windows Vista is out, the first Service Pack was announced.

It's already a few weeks back that I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy, but not until recently I got down to fixing all the issues I had to keep up with. This post is a short outline of the problems and their solutions.

The brand new microsoft developers tools.

I had to replace my notebook HDD, so by that way I took some snapshots and took some useful notes.

For anyone thinking about migrating to Vista on ASUS A6 or similar notebook. Compatibility, performance and more...

Since I was doing a lot of programming recently, I thought it might be a good idea to make my work more comfortable. So I bought this great desktop set from Microsoft. There were other possibilities, but this one won on value/performance.

ReadyBoost is the new system of extending memory (and consequently improving performance) by using fast flash (USB) drives as part of a system memory. I used my Voyager GT to do some testing.

Microsoft finally included a great bash-like console utility, that can be used for both scripting and controlling windows. It's called "PowerShell".

I just wrote down some mainly hardware points, for anyone trying to decide which OS to install.

I just bought this latest Asus PDA and tried to make a simple .NET compact framework application.

For one of my projects I had to choose the best technology to run multiplatform applications (including develompent language and tools, existing projects, etc. ). The results are not definite, but can be a good basis for you to decide for yourself ...

For a long time a wanted to keep an up to date list of components I would use in my new hypothetical computer. As ussual, I choose the best price/value-ers, that an average person like me could afford. The overall goal is that the price of the "testacles" should not exceed 1000$.

As probably all of us, even I have to deal with an enormous ammount of spam and other forms of internet abusal. There are many reliable ways that have been invented to prevent computer/robot-based spamming, but most of them are user-unfriendly. In the following lines, I'd like to offer some better solutions.

I just spotted a message from CES 2009 introducing this new nVidia's child. Looks great at first glance, and made me think seriously about replacing my old Alix 1C board.

I use Eclipse for C++, C, Java, PHP and Embedded Linux development, thus I try to maintain more or less recent version of all the plugins and Eclipse core itself. The new plugins required new Eclipse, so I had to remove the version packed with distribution and replace it with the new one. This, however, turned out to be quite painful.

For anyone who wants to have all the calendar events shared and online.

I've been a (not that) proud user of this shiny operating system for almost a year now, so I guess it's about time to make a summary on how I feel about it.

Since I listen to music almost all the time, I built a small linux powered multimedia (almost) 'PC' for multimedia playback. This article results from my experience finding a good application to manage my music collection.

This time the distribution upgrade went smoother than the one before, but yet there are some minor issues that needed some tweaking. Also, there are some remarks on the new HAL (Hardware Abstraction (Obstruction) Layer)

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I have used my own database layer for a long time, but recently I stumbled uppon a project that has some features my layer lacks. I guess there is no point including the features of dibi in my work, so instead I'm going to extend the dibi by some of the best practicies I use in my projects. This article sums up the reasons for migrating to dibi if you are facing a similar situation as I am nowadays.

I recently upgraded one of my PCs to Windows 7 and needed to access an Ext3 external USB drive. Accessing it in Windows 7 has shown to be quite simple thanks to the new version of ext2fsd.