Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
I'm quite sure that Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn) with GNOME 2.18 locked my screen when I closed the lid of my laptop. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) with GNOME with 2.20 did not until I made this change under the hood. The XML below can be imported with gconftool --load.
<gconfentryfile>
<entrylist ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The end of life for the Netscape web browser was announced yesterday in the blog article End of Support for Netscape web browsers. Of course, everyone I know switched to Firefox a long time ago, so I can't say this has any impact but a small emotion of nostalgia, something ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Bruce Eckel recommends Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) in his recent weblog entry The Mythical 5%. When I ordered a bunch of book recently I was thinking of including both The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks and Peopleware, but I didn't. It ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I would have ordered an Enterprise ready T-shirt on the spot if they had my size in stock.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The day before yesterday I registered a domain name for a new project and yesterday (while recovering from a really upset stomach) I wrote three A5 pages with a database model, sketchy requirements and possible features. All from very basic ones ("It shall be possible to register a new user ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
If I wasn't content about living in my corner of Sweden, I would have knocked on ThoughtWorks door a long time ago. I consider them to be one of the most interesting companies around and some people I admire work there, most notably Martin Fowler and Dan North. ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
This is probably a well-known fact for everyone who has used Ant on Unix for a while, but an annoying discovery for me who have been hiding under a C++ rock. The five year old bug report File Permissions not preserved in replace task pretty much says it all: Java ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I've been reading Beautiful Code from time to time during the autumn. It's mixed bag and I actually skipped some chapter that was too deep into maths for my taste. Chapter 22: A Spoonful of Sewage was an instant favorite; it is a a fascinating head-first dive into a ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
A new Android SDK was announced in the Android Developers Blog. As I have previously written in Swedish in my personal blog, I want to make an Android application that acts on incoming phone calls. I never figured this out when I tried but it seems like someone have now. ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
A bunch of computer books I had ordered arrived to the office last week. Since I'm working on-site at my client I'm not at the office very often so didn't pick them up until today. The books are:
Agile Software Development With Scrum by Mike A. Beedle and Ken Schwaber
Agile Web ...
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