About half year have passed since I installed Linux. My first desktop environment was GNOME, but I tried KDE too. GNOME has a less options, that was very cheerful for me and all was fine and I, as web-developer, was happy.

But!

One of my work’s needs is quick open/create/delete/copy/move files over remote FTP/SCP/SSH servers. I haven’t found any software (at least correctly working) for GNOME to complete this task, but in KDE I found that Krusader and Kate are OK. Some people will argue against: “You can install KDE apps on the GNOME as well!”
Yes, that’s true, but these software needs to be configured over “infinite” text files and settings to teach GNOME environment to understand fish:// and sftp:// protocols.

I don’t want to spend days on the configuration. I want to install and start to work.

So, my choice is KDE.

If you know some software which is working like WinSCP. You are welcome! Drop me a line.

Do not offer!

• WinSCP with Wine.
• Nautilus is sucks, very slow process and working incorrectly sometimes.
• gFTP, I really don’t know what this software is used for.
• FileZilla, Gnome-commander, muCommander, Kasablanca…

They are all sucks for my needs.

I am always interested in games with JavaScript. I made an experiment — wrote the arcade shooter in JavaScript.

I’m not a game programmer, but anyway JavaScript seems to be quite slow for games. So you can check this space arcade shooter. It still contains a lot of bugs (especially in IE7) and can hang up your browser, so beware.

Space shooter screenshot

I do not support IE6 or earlier in my projects anymore.

Recently we have updated Mosaic’s site and we used for catalog nice jQuery magnify plugin.

Check this amazing magnify stuff.

When jQuery was released became possible to do amazing stuff without usign Flash.
As for me I’m not a big fan of the Flash and I do as much as possible on JavaScript with jQuery library.

Read and learn at jquery.com.

PNG is quite popular and versatile format for web, but not so as we all want. Why? Because software cannot render, save and open it correctly. Only IE6 is worth to remember, I hope soon that wretched browser will stay in far-far past. Sometimes happens that PNG’s file size is quite heavy.

OK, lets begin our story. When you create a PNG files in Photoshop they seems to be quite large. “Why” you ask? I answer, because Adobe Photoshop (even CS3) don’t know how to save PNG format correctly (strange, but Adobe Fireworks does). Ok, lets see why Photoshop saves PNG images incorrectly.

After years of preparations I created a normal web-page with blog. From this moment all my stuff will be here in one place.
Special thanks to Mika Tuupola.