Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Autoconf / Automake
I’ve been working all weekend on getting my latest project, ListPatron (which hasn’t been released yet) working with the GNU Build environment. I had to move a lot of stuff around in CVS, which I don’t particularly like since that means older checkouts won’t work anymore. Alas, nothing I can do about it, except perhaps […]
Coding styles
Man, I love this quote I found in the Gaim HACKING file: “Coding styles are like assholes, everyone has one and no one likes anyone elses.” — Eric Warmenhoven or Luke Schierer (Gaim HACKING file) Excellent.
Software development lesson: Don’t refactor and implement
Well, today I’ve learned another valuable lesson about software development in the ‘real’ world. Today’s lesson is: When working on a new version of some piece of software, do not plan on refactoring and/or reimplementing features whilst at the same time planning on implementing new features. At my job, I’m currently working on integrating an […]
Free monitor/keyboard/mouse switch
No money for a hardware monitor/keyboard/mouse switch? Check out X2X. From the description on Freshmeat: “x2x allows the keyboard and mouse on one (“from”) X display to control another (“to”) X display.“. Now I can simply run “x2x -north -to eek:0” and whenever I move the mouse off the top of the screen on my […]
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