Yeah! We are in St Petersburg or Piter as people call it. The fly was nice! We watched TV and time passed very fast. Our parents met us and drove us to home.
During four days we met our grand mother who lives near Piter all summer time, went along Nevski Prospect and were in Ermitage and visited an Tsar Alexander I exhibition. The next targets are Peterhof and The Amber Room.
Yestrday I got a TFT monitor for my work computer. It’s bigger than my previous one and it’s absolutely flat 
Also, it’s good for my eyes with contact lenses.
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. It’s updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The first 8 languages you can in the table below:
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings | (Ratings) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Java | 22.442% | +6.55% |
| 2 | C | 19.160% | +2.04% |
| 3 | C++ | 11.168% | -3.75% |
| 4 | Perl | 9.274% | +0.31% |
| 5 | PHP | 8.895% | +0.66% |
| 6 | (Visual) Basic | 6.509% | -5.14% |
| 7 | C# | 3.290% | +1.66% |
| 8 | Python | 3.032% | -2.57% |
As you can see Java is on the top! It is not bad reason to start use it You can find the whole top here.
Right after Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Mozilla Foundation has released Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 1. Among novelties are spell check right after typing, auto save as draft for mail composition etc. Have a look that page for more details. Be free to download and test the new version of Thunderbird!
I spent a lot of time to try to configure log4php in SugarCRM to send email if log even has level WARN, ERROR or FATAL. I made log4php configuration like that:
log4php.rootLogger=WARN, A2, A3
It seemes correct but it doen’s work (file logging is working)! One of my colleage Sergey helped me to resolve that problem. LoggerAppenderMail sends one email for all exceptions which appeared during session (it doesn’t send separate message for each exception). To send email at the end of session it needs to close logger:
Without calling shutdown email won’t be sent!
Microsoft surprised the world again. It tried to offer job to Eric Raymond who is one of the most famous person in the open source community. Eric Raymond is well known fighter for open code. His open letters give rise to stormy discussions.
You can read original letter from Microsoft, Raymond’s answer and comments here.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 which has a work name Deer Park is released! You can download it here, test it and help to developers to make Firefox 1.5 perfect! Changelog is here.
Persinally, I’ve already downloaded Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and I’m ready to try to use it .
Updated: Note that after upgrate current version of Firefox to 1.5b1 many useful extensions (Web Developer, for example) will be disabled because there are not enough extesions for that version!
Lately I’ve found a free hosting for my pictures – Flickr which is a part of Yahoo! now. It gives an opportunity to upload, organize, describe, comment your pictures. Flickr has user friendly interface, many useful features like post a picture into your blog (it supports all famous blog systems like wordpress ), manipulate picture – rotate or scale, organize pictures in the sets, share pictures using groups etc. It works fast and stable. Flickr allows to upload 20Mb of pictures per month. There is a possibility to merge a Flickr account with Yahoo! account and login to Flickr using Yahoo! You can find my pictures here (mainly there are cars photos).
Another interesting place to host photos or pictures is Shutterfly. Generally, it has similar features like Flickr. But Shutterfly allows to order print of your photos on the paper, mag or T-short! Sure, you should pay for that but it sounds very alluring! I didn’t yet upload any photos to Shutterfly but I’m going to do it soon.
