Today I needed a fix for pgAdmin on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucis Lynx, which is my workstation (pgAdmin is a graphical ui for PostgreSQL database). To my dispair it just closed down when I tried to start it. Luckily I found a solution in this bugreport. I compiled my own and could continue to work.

This is what I did (note: I don’t garuantee it will work for you, I am not a software developer).

apt-get source pgadmin3
sudo apt-get install debhelper libpq-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev autotools-dev devscripts
cd pgadmin3-1.10.2
dpkg-buildpackage
sudo dpkg -i ../pgadmin3_1.10.2-1_i386.deb

The other day I was pulling my hair trying to enable rewrite in Ubuntus Apache2. Everything was installed via apt-get and I guess you get a bit spoiled when so much just works without the need to touch it ;) So when my .htaccess with rewrite had no effect I though I had syntax errors. Turns out it was this simple (in your terminal):

sudo a2enmod rewrite

I got some ideas from LinkedPHPers, a group on LinkedIn. There is a discussion going on, “What is the best free application that runs in Ubuntu 9.10 – the Karmic Koala for development of websites in PHP?” My own anser was Quanta Plus or Eclipse PDT for projects and gEdit for lighter/faster edits. But a lot of people mentioned Netbeans. So I’m giving Netbeans a try on my Ubuntu and my OS X machine.

A brief try today I like it, but I think the use of snippets/templates/palettes/macros (different names in different editors for the recycling of code) should be made easier. I like the way Quanta handles them, drag and drop to create but the option for more advanced edit. And stored in a common format like .txt. The whole idea with snippets is to speed up your coding, at least to me. But I still need to check further in Netbeans, as I said I only had a brief look today. So this is NOT a review … yet ;)

By the way you might have noticed I got some new pages up, “Free editors for OS X” and “Free texteditors for Linux”. I intend to continue with Windows editors soon, and the review them all.

Now you can get Freemind 0.9 on Xubuntu Linux (and OS X and Windows). Freemind is the free mindmapping software. I think it is great for planning and thinking sometimes. There is an old version in the Ubuntu repositories, but I had a hard time getting it to work and it couldn’t open the maps I made on my Mac or Windows (since they had later versions of the software).

I just downloaded freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_6.zip and extracted, made freemind.sh executable and now I got a new version of this great little program :)