installed linux mint on my laptop. looks good. and after changed the sound driver, everything is working perfect.

the sound issue is a little bit tricky. using the default alas, the sound effect is just terrible. As a professional consultant I can't stand that.

However after changing to oss, the chrome native html5 stop working so my new extension can't pronounce word for me. need to figure out some way to solve that.
update: problem solved, installed libasound2-plugins, now the sound quality is as good as under windows
nice!

by the way, linux Mint is a nice distribution, i will recommend this. the interface is quite neat and it has those rmvb, mp3 codecs as default. which is handy.

TDD CI and PP, Yes I say they are craps

http://www.underdevelopment.eu/2009/08/29/why-i-think-test-driven-development-suck/

can't agree more

While CI has some kind of benefit, TDD and PP are totally bullshit. I would like to ask why we want to test while we are just gluing API together or changing CSS. What exactly do you think is worth to test. be practical man.

by the way, I love Scala, it works well as a Servlet, don't prefer lift though.

for pair programming:

If a problem is so trivial that two people sitting in front of a computer chattering away at each other can solve it, then it should be the part of the project that is outsourced, preferably offshore where the cost of doing trivial work is lower