This one is for everyone who is still reading this blog and is wondering “WTF is happing?” The blog has moved on. The new address is http://www.themeticulousgeek.com and everything that was will continue there. This blog will not be discontinued but I’m not sure what to make of it yet. Move on to the new …
Category Archives: Development
Why
Somehow this slipped by but it seems there is another version of Why’s Poignant Guide available… I’m not yet sure if it is newer, older or just different…
Complexity
Enterprise software tends to suck. Bigtime. It even has it’s own word: enterprisey. And believe me: it’s not a good thing. Enterprise software tends to become complicated. Fast. Why? I’m a developer myself and at this level the most common reasons why things go wrong (in no particular ordre) are below: Poor developers Good but …
Slime,
After trying to first get Slime 1.2.1 and later the CVS version to play nice with SBCL I’ve given up. Slime 1.2.1 did run but some things just did not work (C-c C-c for instance). The CVS version of Slime did not start up at all with SBCL so I’m now trying out CMUCL and …
Araneida
I tried to get this lisp web server running a few days ago but to no avail. However, it seems I’m currently “in the zone” because after getting Apache up and running earlier I now managed to also get Araneida to run (relatively easy it was). Again, thanks to a little help from google and …
Commenting
Following up on my earlier post, here’s a funny post on Code Mansion about commenting Microsoft style.
jEdit
Wow, I was running 4.1 for quite a while and I completely missed 4.2 when it was released in August. So I guess the timing of this post is a little bit off but then again, it’s always a good time to let people know how great this program is. If you’re a developer or …
I
Don’t try to understand what Microsoft says but just remember that if you want to prevent the contents of a cell from wrapping you need to make the cell wide enough so it can support it’s unwrapped contents. Otherwise you will still experience wrapping contents when the browser window isn’t big enough to show the …