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   ## 󠀁[Introducing: Blummy](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/10/24/introducing-blummy/)󠁿
   
 * October 24, 2005
 * So the project I’ve been working on lately is called blummy.
 * [blummy](http://www.blummy.com/) is a tool for quick access to your favorite 
   web services via your bookmark toolbar.
    It consists of small widgets, called
   blummlets, which make use of Javascript to provide rich functionality (such as
   bookmarklets).
 * ![blummy in action](https://alex.kirk.at/wp-content/Picture9.png)
 * You can create your own blummy by drag-n-dropping blummlets onto it.
 * It’s hard to explain unless you’ve tried it yourself. So [Come along](http://www.blummy.com/).(
   it’s free, of course)
 * blummy, ajax, bookmarklet, bookmark, favlet
 * [blummy](https://alex.kirk.at/category/projects/blummy/), [Projects](https://alex.kirk.at/category/projects/),
   [Web](https://alex.kirk.at/category/web/)
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Eclipse Everywhere. Buah.](https://alex.kirk.at/2005/10/19/eclipse-everywhere-buah/)󠁿
   
 * October 19, 2005
 * It’s been a little quiet lately. This is because I am working on a cute little
   project that I will be able to present soon. More when the time is ready.
 * There has been rumor lately that Zend (developer of PHP) will release a [PHP Framework](http://www.procata.com/blog/archives/2005/10/17/zend-php-framework/).
   This is nothing new, there has been a IDE ([Zend ](http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio/))
   for a long time now. But it will be based on [Eclipse](http://www.eclipse.org/).
 * Also Macromedia announced that their new [Flex 2.0](http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/)
   environment (Flashbuilder) will be based on Eclispe.
 * Why on earth Eclipse?! I think this is the most slowest IDEs available. It’s 
   based on Java which makes it incredibly slow already and it’s so blown up that
   it’s unbelievable.
 * I just can’t understand why developers would use such a tool. I am not willing
   to buy a GHz monster PC just to have an editor running there. That’s a pure waste
   of money and electricity. Emacs is kinda slow already but it runs on a few MHz.
 * Can anyone explain to me why to use such a monster?
 * I thought that maybe everything changed for the better by now and downloaded 
   the whole thing. That’s 100MB already. This already shows how much memory it 
   will consume. Ok, I still started it. It took more than 2 minutes on my Powerbook
   G4. Hello? The features it provides are so not worth that.
 * I can recommend [TextMate](http://www.textmate.com/) (best completition) and 
   [EditPlus](http://www.editplus.com/) (best integrated (S)FTP). These are fast,
   neat text editors. That’s what I want.
 * eclipse, zend, php, flex, textmate, editplus
 * [Code](https://alex.kirk.at/category/code/), [PHP](https://alex.kirk.at/category/code/php/)

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