I've been using git lately, and finally made the plunge to github with great feelings of success. I'll do my best to keep the site updated now that I have a small amount of free time, but I'm doing my best to churn out new code.

If you currently don't use a version control system for your software, get on the boat. I'm not going to tell you to use a particular system, but use SOMETHING!

Fedora 11 has been released. Release notes show over 50 improvements. More will follow, I'm only a few days into using it.

Fedora Project has a wonderful tour located here.

I started using Eclipse at the beginning of the semester, and I really liked it. This isn't to take away from Eclipse at all, since it's a very powerful IDE.

Netbeans is the new hotness! It's subversion plugins actually work out of the box, the programming interface is CLEAN and easy to read. Did I mention how awesome programming within a group is with this software suite?Just read this page about how powerful the collaboration tool sets are! I'm a big fan. Total cost of ownership = $0.00. I just thought I'd share.

So being that I'm interested in a RHCE, I figured I should really get to know the Red Hat distro all over again. Since I'm YACS (yet another college student) I picked the Red Hat distro within my budget: Fedora Project. At first I thought it was incredibly slow and wasn't too keen on it. However, after upgrading to the newest available graphics driver, I see that it's pretty perky on my lil 1.8 Core 2 Duo system. I'll keep you updated.

As long as you've previously slaved over debugging one for an entire day in the past. This week I employed the internet and my college's Comp Sci department website in boosting my C++ proficiency. Thanks to a few helpful PDF files, I've been able to maintain control over my assignments, versus them eating me alive.

As with any new programming toy ... hello world is never looked down upon:

//Hello World specifically for the GeSHi add-on!
#include iostream
 
int main(void){
    cout << "Hello World!\n";
return 0;
}

Now that's classy. All I had to put in my input was code tags and select normal line numbers. Prepare for awesome!

This will be a much smaller-scale blog than previous endeavors. Expect some sweet code modules to be uploaded. More to come.

**Edit**
New logo. Looks sweet. Nothing I can't fire out of the Gimp.