Had a nice play recently with the i3 wm for Linux. It’s a really nice paradigm for working with when programming. It uses the same style of keyboard navigation as vim for moving around your windows. The windows key can be bound as your modifier key and then used to navigate to a particular workspace (e.g. Windows + 2 to go to the browser workspace). Particular applications can be configured to open only on certain workspaces.

I have an itch. This itch has been bothering me for probably ten years now. I am drawn to idea of doing most of my work on Linux. Every year or so I attempt to scratch this itch to see if it’s finally possible. Why do I want to move to Linux? Lately I’ve become conscious about where Microsoft and Apple seem to be taking the desktop experience. Closed Wall == Max Profit.

If you’re looking for a bit more information than Task Manger manager provides, Process Explorer, also from Microsoft may be the answer. With it you can view your processess in a hierarchical tree, find out what processess are safe and find out which process is running a particular window. These are just a few of the capabilities, and you can configure it to run instead of Task Manager at the click of a button.

Ever wanted to edit any page in place. Well you always could apparently. Simply enter the following in IE or Firefox and you can edit content in place. Handy for mocking up web pages. javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Adobe has made the bug database for the flash player public. Its well worth a look if you’ve got something that should be working but isn’t. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP