About introductory book to programming using assembly language.

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Back in my "Windows" times, I was a fan of Foobar2000 music player. One of my favourite plug-ins was "Alarm", which could turn user's computer on during "suspend" state. So, I could switch my laptop to "sleep" mode, and be awaken in the morning by music from Foobar's playlist :) Is it possible to reproduce a similar trick in Linux? It depends on your hardware. Let's give it a try!

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There are so many browsers out there! Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari - are the major players on the market. But hey, there is another major and one of the oldest browsers in the world: Opera. You might have heard lots of rumours about it. Maybe even used it. Or maybe you belong to a small group of people, who actually use this browser everyday. Would you like to know, why I've been using Opera for 10 years?

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Sometimes, it's really hard to understand what happens inside a function or even a whole module of Python's Standard library. For example, the subprocess module contains a very tricky Popep class. I tried to use the the module to communicate with a MATLAB subprocess shell (e.g. send MATLAB commands to subprocess and read the output). Unfortunately I failed and was just able to pass a MATLAB script via command-line arguments. Yet, I learnt much about the Popen.communicate() method and I'd like to share this knowledge with you.

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The worst thing has happened: I have an unexpected drive failure. That's how my Easter has started :(

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I'm sure, you know, who Albert Einstein is. I remember the basic Relativity Theory course taught at 10th grade of school. That's when I first met Einstein's ideas. It was hard to believe that c, the speed of light - is the maximum speed in the Universe. It was hard to understand, why a time in a spaceship that achieves a speed close to c runs slower and slower. Albert Einstein explained it all. He published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. He is considered the father of modern physics and is probably the most successful scientist there ever was. I think we should learn a lot from him. Wandering around the web, I ran into a wonderful "10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein" article by Mr. Self Development I loved Einstein's advices very much. And here they are:

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Python never stops surprising me. While doing my master IT project, I was looking for a way to add dynamic properties to classes (we're speaking of new-style classes of course!). I did a little research and here are the results...

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There were no blog updates during 8 month! But I am finally back to life!

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It's been a while since I wrote the first part of this guide. I'm happy to introduce you the second part of the tutorial. This part continues the story about applet-only techniques. Even if you're skilled in PyGTK, you are adviced to read this part.

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Sometimes the bugs in programs do not depend on a programmer. For example, when a programmer expects a certain result from a built-in function, that would be the last place to check for bugs. But sometimes weird stuff happens, and it also happened to me.

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