el_ave's Journal

1:37am: The Move
I've moved to wordpress.com
My new blog address is http://aram.wordpress.com/
And you are also welcome at http://codemate.wordpress.com/ where I plan to start writing in the near future.

P.S. please make sure you don't use Internet Explorer (cause it sucks)

12:57am: Flock the world

Let me start-off this post with this cute button

I've been surfing through the web recently and came across this interesting web browser called Flock. It is very young and raw so far but it looks very promising. This is what's on their main page:

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

I've been using it for last 2 hours or so and I like it. By the way, I'm writing this post from within Flock w/o opening the livejournal page.

11:47pm: Yoxos
I started talking about my last affiliation, eclipse, in my previous post and I remmembered about this cool website that provides really nice service.

It allows you to choose what components of eclipse you need, what plug-ins you need and then download it all in a single zip file!!!

I really recommend it for anyone who's new to eclipse.

11:05pm: Haskell source editor
This term I'm taking (well actually not much choice here, it's an obligatory course) a haskell class (officially it's a functional programming class but 90% will be haskell).
So I decided to take a look at different options available for coding in haskell.

My first choice was Notepad++ and WinHugs. So Notepad++ is for editing and WinHugs is for running my code. I even did my first home work :)
Unfortunately there is no ready to use syntax highlighting scheme for haskell in Notepad++ and I wasn't able to find any in internet.

So I searched for other solutions:
1. There is a mode for TextPad, but I think it's disgusting, so I'm not gonna use it anyway.
2. There is Visual Haskell and it seems to be pretty cool, but it requires installing Visual Studio 2003 and I just don't feel like doing that :)
3. There is a plug-in for Eclipse. And since I'm becoming an eclipse fan lately, I decided to try it. It's pretty nice. It supports both WinHugs and GHC. GHC is a compiler for haskell that seems to perform pretty well. At least results at The Computer Language Shootout are amazingly good. But as of now I find it little bit complicated to use, so I'm sticking with WinHugs for now.

But I'm still hesitating what's better eclipse or notepad++ for my needs. If I had to solve more complex problems in haskell or had to write production code, I would definitely stick with eclipse. But it's hard to choose now.

11:58pm: Sicily
I've been on a vacation recently. I took some notes and tons of photos. So here there are my notes + some photos to make you jealous.

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1:43am: 0:2
Fantastic game! This is the first game on this world cup that impressed me! Fantastic hit by Grosso and Del Piero scored finally! Hurray!

1:07am: Photo Gallery
Recently I've been playing around with Tableau it's a nice little photo gallery. Actually I decided to set it up on my laptop because I needed to share my photos. The reason I didn't use filckr or anything similar is that I have too many photos to share, so I think my internet would die uploading giant chunks of photos :)

But! It turned out to be not a very simple task. The gallery was developed on a Mac and as it came out, a web application that runs on mac won't necessarily run on Windows :)))

Most problems where caused by differences in the new line and tab characters.

Finally I've got it running :)

But I'm too lazy to add all these photos one by one, so I'll have to modify it little bit. Unfortunately no time to do that yet :/

1:34am: I did it!
Yeah! I've just finished reading that weired book on Ruby!

The reason I'm so happy is that I've finally managed to read a book on computer programming from cover to cover :)

10:24pm: Term paper
I'm trying to write the document that describes what I’ve done and how for my term work. And again I come across the problem that I’ve always had. Writing the damn paper is harder than doing the actual work was.

The reason that it upsets me even more now is that I’m starting to realize that in most cases writing that kind of papers is more important than doing the actual work and is paid much better for. So I guess I’ll have to learn doing that. That’s the main reason why you’re able to read this post. And if my attitude to life doesn't change in near future you should be able to read some more soon.