I am a lazy person. I do like things to just work, run out of the box, name it. I like Ubuntu for it’s packaging system and ease of installation of various software. However using Netbeans from the default repo could cause you a headache when developing Rails 3 apps. These just won’t run. Let us start with installing the newest version of the IDE sudo apt-get install netbeans #then go to the Tools->Plugins->Available and install all regarding Ruby Now go ahead and try running some Rails app. [Read More]

For years I’ve been involved in the open source community. I encouraged company managers to use open source solutions, I reported bugs, I did tests. Since this Monday I am officially a part of Sharpdevelop team, pursuing the goal of better F# support within the IDE. The project itself made has made a impressive progress last years, had MonoDevelop forked from it and has some pretty good people working on it right now. [Read More]

Update 2023: the landscape has changed considerably over the last 13 years, a lot of the companies mentioned in this post have died, I’ve removed dead links After some not so pleasurable experiences with the previous VPS hosting provider I started my search for some other one. This time not only google was involved but also aardvark and some of the “top XX best hosting providers” sites. Two results kept showing up. [Read More]

As every person in the software industry I need ways to promote my humble self. A decent web page and online resume plus a blog maybe are a must these days. The question remains where to put them. Previously I had my site published within one of the polish hosting companies for free, as my friend was involved in its operations. Thanks Kajetan for 5 years of support ! And maybe it’d stay that way if not of that desire of mine to tinker and have control of every aspect of the technology power. [Read More]

I have always been fascinated by works of Adrian Chmielarz, from the times of Metropolis Software on. Naturally then, I am following really closely on the development of Bulletstorm. Damn, I even hoped to talk to The Guy or Mieszko Zielinski at the gameaiconf in Paris, but Alex told me that “whoa, PCF are so busy with the new IP that they didn’t have time to come this year, next year they’ll be here, hopefully”. [Read More]

Update 2023: things fall off the face of the internet after a while; removed dead links It seems that being so much into other programming things I missed the Google AI Contest announcement. It’s supercool that they sponsor such challenges but also it’s really uncool [so like warm ?] that apparently I won’t have time to participate. About the challenge itself - it involves working with GalconFusion-like game. Easy to learn, difficult to master type. [Read More]