All facebook experience was kinda ok. Good sides of writing facebook api are:

• Very reach API
• Easy to apply a code
• Good PHP client

On another side:

• Bad manual. Where is one wiki and it’s not updated
• Restricted access to user (which is ok for user, not developer)
• Very but very bad debugging
• SLOW

The most worst is the speed cause when you surf from apps.fb.com fb server connects to your LAMP server and then communicate back to browser.  This can be very slow when your server is not in U.S.A.
Question is why don’t FB serve they own PHP application. I guess there is security involved or they want to get cheap on servers.

Anyhow after this task i had to write facebook connect for bibi. With this expiriance i wrote it after 5+ days. If i haven’t written agoraApp it could take me a weeks.

For some weird reason ubuntu decided to use striped-down version of vim (package: vim-tiny) which comes by default install. Problem with vim-tiny is it’s weak and not powerful as real vim.  However you can install it by “sudo apt-get install vim“. After that copy default vimrc file from /etc/vim to your home directory with the name .vimrc

cp /etc/vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

After that edit it and turn syntax on (more info). Here is little example of my editor:

If you want to read/write Hebrew perhaps you should read wikipedia which says to use “:set rightleft” and “:set norightleft” (or short :set lr,:set nolr). It also says it don’t support BiDi very well for it’s simplicity, but this way writing hebrew is better that lot of IDEs that i know.  Better than my favorite komodo edit.
I remember at beginning when i saw Vim and when i started to read man pages i decided to stay with nano. I used nano for few years but today, no way that I’m returning to nano/pico after vim.

And again, after CCNA i decided to have some Linux certification. After reading and asking people there are 2 main certifications for Linux. LPI and Red Hats certifications. There is few more like Suse or CompTIA Linux+ but they are not so popular as RHCE or LPI.

RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification is most popular certification for linux out there (at least for Israel). The population of RH probably comes from very good linux distribution (even if closed). RH is usually installed for server and if you’re looking for linux career you’ll probably need get used for it’s RPM package manager and to get it’s certification. In Israel if you want to get a course of RHCE you can do it in John Bryce school for 17.5K NIS  or $5193 (current course). If you know any more courses in Israel that teach you RHCE please contact me. The course is 6 months long and i would like to find another opinions about this course.
You can find example questions here (registration needed).

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LPIC on another hand, don’t depend on any distribution out there. You will find questions from all kind of package manager – debians: apt-get; red hat: rpm; suse: Yast…
But main material is same as RHCE. People say that LPIC-2 is hard  as RHCE except that LPI ask more questions for another distributions. I guess that what makes it harder/better.
Another interesting thing with LPIC is non-profit organization.
Examples for LPIC-1 question you can find here. In Israel you can find LPIC-2 course in hi-tech collage for 15k NIS ($4451)

Conclusion: It’s interesting that RHCE teachers keep telling me that RHCE is best for me, and on controvery, LPIC teachers says same for LPI. In my opinion if you don’t have linux experience on-hands then RHCE will help you with finding new job easier then LPIC. Cause LPIC is simply not so popular as RHCE. Most of linux servers that i met in companies was RPM based. But if you already have regular job and you simply want to learn more about linux then my suggestion is LPIC. Cause it’s more material to learn and much cheaper then RHCE and more challenging. But that’s only my humble opinion.

Well, that is not true! First of all, you can look at they changelog list. You’ll find hundreds of new lib’s. What is most important for me is they finally decided to upgrade lib’s for my favorite dictionary stardict so i finally have dictionary that is free and working

Then i notice i have problem with flash, i can’t listen to the music while playing music flash. I fix that problem by typing “gstreamer-properties” and choosing “Pulse plugin”. By doing this you’re telling all your programs to choice Pulse plugin for playing music
I don’t know why they added it, ALSA plugin was working perfect with my box!
If you have still have problem with your sound after upgrate you might visit: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio. it explains why you are having problems and how to fix it!

Generally, upgrade was smooth, it was really GUI-like installing new software. It also upgrade kernel to 2.6.24-16. I remember when i had to upgrade red hat from 6.x to 7.x. It was pain in the a**. This was really joke. IMO, it’s only question of time when ubuntu will win desktop computers.

His solution is to install MS fonts and i start from there, why i didn’t like MS fonts!

1) Using MS fonts

In Debian world you can install MS fonts with command ″apt get install msttcorefonts″. My experience using MS fonts is very bad. And this is why, after installing my fonts got even worse then they were…
* With Hebrew:

* With Latin:

I don’t know about you but FireFox Sans-serif shows much much better then Arial. Really, all credits go to Sans-serif and Arial simply is not for my platform. It’s just my taste, lot of people like this! So i found myself where i started.

2) Using default linux fonts

I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 and this problem became much annoying after upgrade from 7.10. I used Ben Dodson FireFox plug-in Font Finder 0.5b for detecting CSS font (very useful plug-in). I decided to test whatsup.co.il page for this purpose. This is screenshot.

On first picture is sans-serif font, this is the way i want it. On second picture is CSS which says:

font-family: arial,sans-serif,helvetica
font-size: 14px

So, IMO English is better on sans-serif, English with CSS looks little and annoying. But look at something weird, CSS says to use Arial font, if you don’t have it then use sans-serif and if you don’t have that then use helvetice. But wait, on first picture i hacked it to use only sans-serif and by rules of CSS it should render sans-serif cause i don’t have Arial. So what’s the trick? I really don’t know, it could be a bug in firefox3 beta5.

I found some pages where CSS says:

font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif

And there English letters are so terrible that’s very hard to read. So it returns me to main question, if i don’t have verdana, arial, helvetica fonts why i don’t use sans-serif then? I decited to leave it as it is and i found another solution.

Well, not so perfect solution but it will solve the problem. Go with your firefox: Edit–>Preferences–>Content–>Advanced..–>
then uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of  my selection above”

This is not so perfect cause it will show only one font for whole Internet but crazy thing that all the rest fonts are ugly with my platform. Still looking for perfect solution and if i found any I promise I’ll post