Tools of Choice

Here's my roundup of the languages / tools / software of choice:

1. Python - very nice and clean for scripting and also creating tools.
2. PHP - nothing beats it for speed and rapid development. Still on PHP4 but closely looking at Symfony and CakePHP as a framework.
3. Subversion - you think you don't need this but when you start using it you'll wonder why you were not using it.
4. MySQL - the more you use it the more you feel its power.

I'll be updating this with more.

Skype Video Final

Skype video is fantastic! My dad and I was using Skype beta before with some success. He was using it on Windows 2000 while I'm using it on XP. Video worked for a couple of days before it became intermittent. We resorted to using Yahoo Messenger for video and Skype for voice. Now my dad is using Skype on XP and everything worked out of the box.

The video frame rate is so much better than Yahoo. I display video at full screen and hook the sound on the speaker system to have unlimited video call! So much for 3G.

Hmmm. If only my mobile phone had Skype video...