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A couple of days ago Ethan Schoonover released Solarized, a color palette designed for use with terminal and gui applications. Over the last 6 months or so I have been using Notepad++ more and more for my daily coding. The default theme is just to harsh and I have been using the Bespin theme for some time now. While this is a really well designed theme, I always felt that there are some aspects of it that I just did not like …

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The art of writing code, designing or writing requires a great deal of attention to detail and hence we often find that we need to create a space for ourselves where we are free from distraction. Finding this space in today’s open office environment can be difficult and many find solace from headphones. But what are you streaming through those headphones?

Because music here fills a dual purpose, freedom from distraction and a form of inspiration, I always find it incredible interesting to …

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I have felt this for some time now, but my experience over the last four months along with a poll I viewed today on TechRepublic, brought this all into focus for me. Developers, in general, are living lives that are hardly what one would call balanced and healthy.

Drinking gallons of coffee to stay awake, all though not everything about coffee is bad, and sleeping a ridiculous small number of hours at night to make that deadline. It is generally in our nature …