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New TimeGT available, with grace period and more
New tasks and notes manager – TimeGT – came out with a new version — improved features and stability. More details at http://bit.ly/18tppm
TimeGT Task and Note Manager launched!
The most secure and accessible task and note manager is now released! See TimeGT latest blog post for details. It is not a web-based tool (not yet, at least) but you can access your information anywhere with a pc and keep working even without internet connection! Check it out and let me know what do [...]
MySQL and Oracle — founders take
Nice reading about MySQL future at Oracle is available at Michael Widenius blog. He is the founder of MySQL, was involved in successfully transferring MySQL business to Sun and left the company in the beginning of 2009.
Ericsson comes out with the Android phone – mid-2009
According to http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/releases/20081209-1276213.shtml Ericsson joined Open Handset Alliance. Yei! This means Ericsson ongoing support for open source and more importantly Google-backed Android platform. Ericsson will be offering Android-based phones mid-2009. Excellent news! I’m glad to see strong phone manufacturer joining the Alliance. As I understand, currently only Nokia and RIM (blackberrry) from the “big players [...]
New Memberships
Just for the record, Codehoop is now the member of “Eclipse Friends” and official OSGi Supporter.
Summer of Code: writing PHP plugins
Toomas finished the official part of the google summer of code program. It was an honor to be the mentor and I had/still have a lot of fun with him. Grab The PHP writing plugin for Eclipse from the update site and check it out if it works for you! Sorry, but java6 and eclipse [...]
Forget the Procrastination
I’m writing this story while riding on a train to Tartu, moving at 70km/h. Where else could I have that much free time with 4KB/s internet. This time it’s not technology that gets my attention, it’s too old fashion. Today I want to share my thoughts related to Procrastination. Procrastination is the new popular disease [...]
All time best usability – know your Nokia Phone Model Number
Why blondes never buy Kia? ’cause they have Nokia. How many engineers you need to find out your Nokia phone model number? To find out that I own Nokia E61 I had to: Open the case Turn off the mobile phone to safely remove battery And yeah, My Model Number is just right there – [...]
Four is the Magical Number – and so is 5920
5920 is the number of pixels you get horizontally when being a Codehooper with serious need for more screen real estate. 6149440 pixels in total. Featuring our widget-guru Ivar at his new workspace PS. Sorry if someone has commented here over last few weeks. Almost thousand spam comments is just way too much to moderate [...]
Google and $4500 are waiting for your Eclipse contributions
Google has started it’s annual Google Summer of Code program where hundreds of university students are paid to make open source contributions. Each successful submission is honored with $4500 to student’s bank account (local taxes apply) and $500 to Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is one of the participating open source organizations and previous years have been [...]
