Lately, I've been suffering from a serious case of indecisiveness when it comes to the software I use and I've been wondering if other people go through this as well.

I have 18 color schemes for Vim that I like. Or did like. I will work fine with one for a while and then I just have to change it. I wrote a Python script to upload my vimrc because I change fonts and colors so frequently and I wanted to keep my home comp up-to-date.

At least I don't change editors anymore. Although the thought had crossed my mind recently because I've been using Visual Web Developer and switching between that and Vim gets me confused. But it used to be Vim, to jed, to emacs, to vim/cream, to jEdit, to Programmer's notepad, to notepad++, to vim, etc. I don't remember the exact order, but it was something ridiculous. I heart Vim too much to let go now.

I look at least once every other week for a new Opera theme. At one point last year, I was downloading a ton of themes for Windows XP and just ended up going with the classic look again. I don't have as much optimism in the FireFox and Thunderbird themes, so I don't check those nearly as often.

Is this part of a deeper psychological problem, or do other people go through this?

One of the things I hate most about GUI toolkits is the layout system. They are so clunky and I always feel like I don't get to have my window laid out how I want. This is true with java (all of my school projects were absolute positioned), wxWidgets, gtk+ (i imagine -- i never got it to work), xul, etc.

Qt has changed my opinion. It's so simple to work with layouts. Even more simple (and in fact, quite amazing) is using layouts with QtDesigner. Every time I have a form, I click a layout button and magically it's exactly how I want. Well, not always exactly, but I know how to get it exactly how I want and it usually does not take long to get it so.

It's unfortunate that Qt is GPL, and from my understanding that means anything I write using Qt must also be GPL. But, I don't understand exactly how the PC-BSD folks managed to keep their stuff BSD-licensed. Any ideas?

I digress. The important thing is that I'm a very stubborn and picky developer and to find a piece of software that I find makes things easier and actually works how I want it to and expect it to -- well it's almost unheard of. Try Qt and QtDesigner.

Forget linux. I tried out Kubuntu and it performed so very poorly. Worse, in fact, than Windows Vista on my grossly underpowered work computer. Here's a breakdown:
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Anyway, forget the last post. Back on Windows. Gonna try and finish stuff.

Well my stupid hard drive died the other day and as a result, I've decided to ditch Windows. So, all of my Windows only projects are canceled. This includes KJ2, but it will be released as is. Unfortunately, I can't even get it to run on my machine, so who knows...

I've thought about redoing it with PyGame or something but it's a lot of work.

Future projects may be licensed GPL cause of Qt's crappy requirements. But it doesn't matter I guess.

Got some free time at work and updated my find and replace script to support unicode more better. Actually, it was cause I tried to use it on a utf-8 encoded file and it choked.

That's it for now.