Spend the first half of the day killing bugs in an application that we are developing. Luckely for me, these bugs happen to be in one of the ugliest looking editor screens that I have ever seen. I have the right to say this because I created this horrid looking thing myself. Had to model …
Category Archives: Software
The
Found in the introduction of the Inform 7 documentation: Programming is best regarded as the process of creating works of literature, which are meant to be read… so we ought to address them to people, not to machines. Donald Knuth, “Literate Programming”, 1981. Amen to that brother.
Squeak,
It took a little bit of fiddling but Seaside2.6b1 and the latest Magma now seem to be running in harmony on my local Squeak image. Mainly for my personal reference but maybe it’s useful to someone else too, here are the steps I took to get there: Install the latest bleeding edge snapshot of Seaside, …
PHP5
Just a quick note on getting PHP5 to work with Apache 2.2: make sure the LoadModule and <IfModule> sections are in place. The LoadModule line should be added when you install using the ports collection but I was missing the <IfModule> section but after manually adding this I was fine: [code] DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Addtype …
MySQL
It always takes a good night of sleep for me to get things working in FreeBSD. I usually tend to start these tasks too late when I’m not completely with it anymore and things go wrong often right from the start. The day after I’m usually able to complete what I set out to do …
Too
If the desired behaviour is so complex that it cannot be reasonably described in ordinary language then how can we expect our users to actually use and administer the system?
FreeBSD
The whole story will follow later but for now I just want to post a quick reminder to myself about a “su” problem I just finally solved. After installing 6.0 when first trying to “su” I got the “Sorry” (Bad SU etc…) error so I messed around with the rights on the “su” binary (/usr/bin/su). …
The
Some interresting facts and thoughts about Microsoft’s CLR Garbage Collector appearing on James Robertson’s blog. I think that we, who are not responsible for maintaining that (apparent) monstrum, should stop for a moment and think about how lucky we are. And how amazingly wonderful it is that the thing actually works! Who would’ve guessed that …
RumGallery
I just started with RumGallery and it’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for. It integrates fully with the WordPress admin and the front-end template is easy enough to modify. The project is still in an early stage (v0.02) but it’s already very usable.
Audio
Today at work someone asked if there was a program that could rip multiple tracks to a single audio file. After a quick google I found FreeRIP which, according to the feature list, seems to do the trick. This is especially convenient if you want to rip a mix or CD without pauses to a …