Almasch

On my personal computer at home a change occured. The Feisty Fawn did a very good job but now is time for the Gutsy Gibbon!

After trying a lot different Linux Distributions I found my favourite in Ubuntu. Its easy to install and without hours of configuration you can start to work. As desktop environment I prefer KDE to Gnome and thats the reason for the derivative Kubuntu. Basically it is the same as Ubuntu but with a other software packages preselection optimized for KDE.

All essential software is already included like development tools, office, mail, browser, editors and if you do not like the preselected product you can change easily. Installing and removing software can be done with adept, standard system services and hardware can be configured by provided frontends. All who need more can do it manually with no problem. Under the surface of the system you find basically a Debian Linux System.

For all who would like to use Linux for daily work and don’t want to configure every single switch and spend more time while reading manuals than doing work is my advice is to have a look at Ubuntu. By the way, it was more easy to install Kubuntu on my “Vista Premium Capable” PC than Windows Vista…

If you still reading and have not get so far an answer for your question what is Gutsy Gibbon have a look at the Ubuntu homepage.

After long time of work should also follow some recreation. Best for recreation is gaming. Meet friends, play game, have fun…

Munchkin is easy to learn (in fact there are also a few rules and all other important stuff you can read on the cards). Its ideal for all people who like to play rpg games. All other propably will not understand the funny side of the jokes.

How to play? Become the most powerful player! Thats all. You fight against monsters, find treasures and cheat and bend the rules whenever it is possible. Sounds simple but all you opponents do the same. You can play together with them, you can play against them, you can support them or you give them more trouble they already have… In the end there is only one winner.

For more information you can visit the homepage of Pegasus Spiele or check your local game dealer.

While thinking about strategies to create a good ant community there a two big classes. Every ant is an individual and make its own decisions or there is a bit master ant in the background which gives order to all workers.

Using a master ant is ok to organize the worker. Using a static class member to let the ants communicate is a kind of cheating. Many system rely on the communiction over that static variable but finding a way to let the ants communicate with signals is much more interesting.

So in the beginning my little ants will be talk active idividuals. One for all, all for one and all apples to me.

Finally we got it! After a long struggle to defeat the big and small problems in our software we managed it to finish just in time. I have had great companions in that fight and without them the project would not have a good ending. Good teamwork is the key to a successful project

During the project we have used two systems which I have not used before. And both have proved that they are worth to be used.

For source code my new favorite is subversion. Its easy to setup, easy to use and you can get many plugins to integrate subversion to any system you want on nearly any important platform. All you expect from a revision system like branches, tags and logs you get. For all features in detail check the manual and enjoy. For people who have used cvs before like me its a very fast change. Later you do not want to miss the new features.

The second is a web development framework called symfony. By the way, it was a web application project… This framework is based on a Model-View-Controller architecture and you can really good devide business logic from presentation. It offers all features for professional web pages at is prepared to handle internationalization, localization, database abstraction, object relation mapping. And the best part – it works. If you need a framework for a web application have a look for symfony.