Back to Arch Linux

After a very long period of waiting the new Arch Linux 06.2008 “Overlord” finally hit the shelves a couple of days ago. As some of you know Arch has always been my favourite distro, but recently I was using primarily Ubuntu(at least at home). Since today this is no longer the case – my desktop PC runs Arch now and I’m very pleased by that fact.

Don’t get me wrong – I enjoyed my exprience with Ubuntu a lot, but I’m one of those guys that always wants to tinker at things and Ubuntu simply isn’t built for tinkering…

Das Keyboard 3

Every professional developer knows how important to the development process the keyboard is, so it is only natural to be on the look for some quality piece of hardware. After a long research in the area of good keyboards I decided to upgrade my current rig to the recently released “Das Keyboard 3″. I have long heard stories about its quality and comfort and I hope I’ll experience them myself soon. So what are waiting for – research the market yourselves and make your pick, your hands deserve a quality keyboard!

Some presentations from JavaOne 2008

I found a couple of very interesting presentations from JavaOne 2008. Some of the topics discussed in them: UI trends – multi-device, rich, active, social, mashup – Ajax, jMaki, JSF (2.0), Server Push; Portal (2.0, JSR 286); Scripting languages (primarily Groovy), OSGi, NetBeans & Glassfish, JEE6, Java 7, the Business of Open Source.