Gordaen’s Blog

Some of my coworkers have been struck by the Python bug (the one that makes you think Python is superior to all other languages) and they’ve been using the Django framework quite a bit. Since most of our code is in PHP, my knowledge is focused around PHP, and I have not had the [...]

Most Linux users spend quite a bit of time using the command line. It’s fast, efficient, and gives you bonus “cool points” with every command. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought from time to time, “It sure would be nice to be able to do X” and then later stumbled across that [...]

I seem to be stumbling across all kinds of little tips lately. Looking about the about:config part of Firefox, I saw browser.backspace_action was set to 1. I changed it to 0 and now backspace actually goes back rather than jumping around on the current page. If you are using Linux (or any [...]

My desktop never had any problems with video playback in Ubuntu, but my laptop has. I was too lazy to really look into it, but basically several types of videos would be a weird blue hue. Adjusting the hue by 50% made the colors close to normal, but reds generally appeared too green [...]

Microsoft provides us with another example of why attention to detail is valuable.