Updated my Amazon wishlist due to the arrival of seven new books today.

Mono: A Developer's Notebook A very good book about Mono by Edd Dumbhill in O'Reilly's new Developer Notbook-series.

Open Source .NET Development This book cover .NET development with build automation with NAnt, XML documentation with NDoc, unit testing with NUnit and continous integration with Draco.NET and CruiseControl.NET.

Design Patterns in C# Also need more input on my design skills.

The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide Since I want to dig deeper into Gnome development what can be better than the official developer's guide?

Programming Ruby Who trigged me first about Ruby were Johannes Brodwall's presentation at NUUG in March 2004. Since then I haven't looked at it until I lent this book from a fellow programmer. Soon found out that I needed to extend my bookshelf with this book even though I maybe don't have much time to learn Ruby right now.

Apache Cookbook Needed more input on my Apache skills.

Python Cookbook Don't know much Python yet, but like the cookbook series to get some quick and dirty examples on how to solve tasks.

I decided to take a look at Google's Web Service API this morning with PHP5's new SoapClient extension. To enable SoapClient on my Gentoo Linux server I compiled mod_php with soap.

While it was installing I went to check out the Google Web Service API, downloaded the devkit and found a nice little blog entry about PHP5 and it's SoapClient extension at WebForce WebDesign Blog.

Thought I found the best solution for communication with my digital camera in the last blog entry, but today I tried gtkam, which gives you even more plug'n'play. gtkam is using libgphoto2 and seems like it support most of the standard digital cameras on the market now. I'm using gthumb as my image viewer.

It's late evening on christmas day and I had to transfer the images from our family happening tonight. I hadn't tried transfering images from my Canon PowerShot A40 to my laptop running Gentoo Linux before. But I did know that a program called gphoto had support for my camera so I simply installed it with the following command:

I plugged in my USB cable, turned the camera on and detected the camera and checked files on the camera.

Everything seemed ok so I just created a directory where I wanted to store my images from tonight and simply run a command to fetch all images over to my harddrive.

PRADO is an event-driven and component-based web programming framework for PHP 5 and won the Zend PHP 5 Contest not long ago. I've gone through the tutorials and tried a few controls myself and it's a very promissing project. No doubt that I'll be using this for my next web application. It seems fairly complete with controls and have a helpful community forum. If you are interested in PHP 5 and see it in use check out the different contest winners. Some very cool projects there.

Oh, and I almost forgot, it's christmas today :) Merry christmas everyone!

Changed layout and design on my page today to be more cleaner and simple. I found a new template Kubrick created by Gunnar Lundström that I twicked a bit and created another header from my Ubuntu wallpaper.