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In case you haven’t done so, go download firefox 3 to break a world record http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

First of all please no “2005 call he wants his revelation back” jokes.

Honestly I didn’t put a lot of attention to this the first time it came around. I just though, it was a bunch of buzz… but it turned out to be a huge success, and even though I still don’t like the toolkit, because it’s way too narrow. (which now I understand why) I have to totally agree with the philosophy. Most of the stuff that is said in this book I have either said, think or didn’t had the words to articulate my thoughts. But I knew it right after reading the “essay” (books is split into “essays” instead of chapters).

It will take you at most 2hrs to read it entirely (if you where like me), maybe a week or more if you haven’t even think of it’s core ideas. and some will probably never understand it. This is how companies should work, this is how software should be build, and this is how I plan to run my company. Anyway without anything else to say please enjoy this little gem of modern software development, Getting Real by 37 signals.

WinMerge is wonderful for those souls that are still trap developing in windows.

Their “main” site is currently down but you can check it out later at winmerge.org.

Meld is another great app which I found ones I moved 100% to linux.

I really like them both but there is one feature that WinMerge has that I haven’t been able to reproduce in Meld. WinMerge has keyboard shortcuts for everything, so you do something like alt-down, alt left (can’t recall the exact commands) and that will go to the next diff and replace the right file with the left file. In Meld you have (or at least as far as I know) to do the same but with the mouse which makes it slower.

A smaller thing is that WinMerge is faster and I believe it’s both because it’s more mature and because it’s C++ while meld is python+GTK .

And of course Meld gets extra points for the cool effect to reflect changes.

I have been wanting to post about a couple of small apps, that I have been using. Which I think rock but not many people know them. So in no particular order here is the first .

InfraRecorder is what I dream of having for all those years I was using windows, ever since Nero crapped out it’s own UI, I think it was nero 5 or 6 when they redoit to make it idiot proved, which in most cases ruins the experience for the “advanced users”.

InfraRecorder is simple and usefull, the website is very ugly (default wordpress install) and the UI too but who wants a flashy UI if all you need is to burn a CD? Infra has 3 or 4 tabs each with 3 or 4 “links” you click. It was everything you will ever need; burn data, mp3 (with a plugin due to copyright), burn ISO, copy disk-to-disk and delete re-writables.

A warning: If you are trying to burn a CD with a DVD burner (always?) it gives you a dialog, which the first time I read confused me, it’s really asking you if you want to burn a CD or DVD and if you choose the wrong one it will ruin your disk.