Tomasz Korwel
programmer, administrator, engineer – my everyday fights with reality

June 8th, 2006

Home, sweet home

Posted by tomasz in Life

For those who don’t know yet, we are buying house. Or should I rather say we would like to do so. But it’s not that easy when you have certain budget and all those people freaking around “remember to choose one in good neighborhood”.

I checked, there is around 3500 houses for sale in the area we are interested living in. Looks great, lets move one and cut it down a little bit. Ok lest choose something. First we would like to cut down the area a little bit. Good. 1200 left. Lets go a little bit further and slice out only those in our price range. Much better – only 200 to choose from. But it’s not the end. We are young, middle class childrenless couple so we think it’s high time to skip living in the appartment and choose a single family house. Ok duplex will be as good. Lets se… 12. Yes you see it good – out of three thousand five hundred houses we have 12 to see. And we have seen them already. One was perfect. Was because it’s already sold :-(.

It looks like we are targeting the most desirable property type on the market. The preassure is so big, that houses are less than a day on the market.

Wish us luck, maybe we will spot something this week :-)

June 7th, 2006

Zend Studio vs. Me 0:1

Posted by tomasz in Work

On Zend home page you can read (among other) that Zend Studio is an enhanced and seamless application. Probably is, when you finally make this piece to work.

It took me two weeks – ok not in a row, but I started this two weeks ago – a lot of nerves and system reinstalation to finally be able to say: “I have working IDE, more I have it working as I like and as I want it to work”.

Why did it take me so long? Because I had to work in the meantime (surprised huh?), but more because I’m addicted to Firefox and I can’t imagine working/developing using other browser. Especially if you tasted Web Developer extension :-).

Bug squashing moved on to level 2.

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