I got a few requests from readers of my Newfoundland trip to give them maps so they can more easily figure out where I’ve been. Should be easy given that I recorded most of the trip using a OpenGPSTracker, but that’s a story for another time. This post is about the dying practice (not art) …

Max Stepin (the APNG maintainer) has added APNG support to Chromium. Good job, man!

I maintain a reasonably popular app called Asunder. This app has in its preferences a GtkFileChooserButton, and implementation of the (supposedly) interface GtkFileChooser. I’ve been getting bug reports about the selected directory not being saved when you save the preferences and looked into it again today. I could hardly believe what I found. If I …

I ran into a major issue with LibreOffice today, the version (3.6.22) that comes with LinuxMint14. It will not open the spreadsheet with my grades for last semester! It just hangs there at “Loading document”. Same thing happening on both computers I have that are both running the same Mint. I hope this is not …

Hey look, it’s 2012/12/12 – cool! But that’s not what this post is about. It always pissed me off big time that the more popular Linux distros don’t install the development files (like header files) or the documentation for the software that comes with them. Being a developer – this is a big pain in …

I’ve been working on this project part time for a while now, and finally it started bothering me that I couldn’t google the requirements document. That is so because I haven’t publicised it yet, so here you go: The first step has been to create a requirements document, which I’ve done, on a wiki like …

I had a diploma and degree version of a multimedia course in the summer, where half the course was about HTML5 technologies. The major assignment was for students to implement a functional animation of a data structure and/or algorithm. There were a few of them to choose from. It took me a while but finally …

SVG has been a nightmare over the last decade. It used to be that every implementation is different, no one software created files compatible with any other software. These days the situation is a lot better, but I’m still suspicious of SVG. But I’m thinking of using it for a Processing.js project, so how do …

A bit of background: we are trying to port a game written in Adobe Flash to HTML5 using Processing.js. Flash An SWF (Flash) file is placed inside a page using HTML <object>/<embed> tags. The size of the SWF as displayed on the user’s computer is dicated by the width/height attribute of the <embed> tag and …