Geany

As an amateur programmer and web developer (I did say amateur) I’m always looking to find a good IDE that matches my workflow and that allows me to do what I want as quickly and with the least effort possible. Out of all the free IDEs I have tried in both Windows and Linux, none of them even come close to matching Geany’s pure awesomeness!

While it undoubtably has the worst looking icon ever, you can clearly see that the IDE is not overly complex or messy.

There are three ... Read more »

C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby : a first impression

Executive Summary

I am a language agnostic journeyman programmer. I am not a fan of a particular language (I almost said 'fanboy') but thats a bit inflammatory). I just want to write useful programs and have fun doing it. I know C++ and Java pretty well. I did some beginner work in Python and Ruby. I then came up with the following conclusions. But before you flame, read the whole article.

Go right to the side-by-side comparison

• C++ vs Java
  Java garbage collection is the big productivity gain
  Java is significantly slower than C++
  C++ is (much) harder to code correctly than any of the others
• Java vs Python/Ruby
  Python/Ruby interpreted execution and dynamic typing are big productivity gains over Java.
  Python/Ruby are slower than Java
  Python/Ruby programs need less extraneous scaffolding (cleaner ... Read more »

Since I use my Dell Latitude D410 for most of my day-to-day computing,

it was the obvious choice for the experiment.  I had previously been running Windows XP,

so I went ahead and removed the hard drive and popped in a new one

(just in case I couldn’t take it anymore, I could easily return to friendly territory). 

At first, I contemplated dual booti ... Read more »

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