Gurus Place

Ftp using curl

This post just a reminder for me, as every time I need it, I look through the manual for options, to send a file through FTP using the command curl

I just keep forgetting it, hope it would help someone else

I Love /* */ and I hate #

What is wrong with multi-line comments? this is the question I’m asking myself right now, since I started programming I loved multi-line comments, (actually the comments you have to specify where do they end).
My first programming language was Pascal, they had comments like { my comments are here }, then C which I only knew about /* my comments are here */ and I never knew about
// my comments are here till the end of the line
until I learned C++, then Java, and PHP. They all have multi-line comments.
I’ve done work with Perl, and Bash before, and one of the reasons I hate to write Perl scripts was the
# comments till the end of the line
thing, yes I know that you can write multi-line comments as
# comment line 1
# comment line 2
but I just can’t stand it
Today, after hearing a lot about Ruby, (specially after the on Rails thing), well I thought, I should give it a try (given that you should learn a new language every year, and I didn’t do that this year). So I googled it, and damn, those # again, I hate them I really do, I can’t cope with them, I guess I have a psychological thing regarding these comments.
What am I wondering right now, what is really wrong with the multi-line comments? why new languages (except those which are C based) are abandoning multi-line comments, aren’t they cool anymore, or maybe there is some software engineering thing related to this issue.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MULTI-LINE COMMENTS

Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money

a nice article, must read

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/articles/Nine_Things_Developers_Want_More _Than_Money.aspx

Araby Search Engine Add-on To Firefox

if you use firefox you can think of adding this addon to your search engines
download here

Kubuntu.de Protestwoche

To calrify the seriosness of the situation, kubuntu.de will be offline for one week beginning as from Monday, 10.04.2006 …

Kubuntu.de Started a Protest Week

This website, including the forum, the mailing lists and the respective IRC channels (#kubuntu-de and #kubuntu-de-team) has one aim: to support the community, to offer a platform to the users of Kubuntu and, last but not least, to boost the Kubuntu-project so as to make it an outstanding distribution.

More …

I just recieved this note from LinuxToday, well it so sad to see an opensource project reaches this point, but I’m speachless here.

Technorati Tags: Protest, Kubuntu.de, opensource,