It occurred to me recently that when it comes to a software project – it takes more than just code to make it successful but at the same time we typically only measure the scope of a software project in lines of code (LOCs). In most organisations it’s laughed at as an official measure of …
Continue reading Measuring project effort in something other than Lines-Of-CodeSafe For Seneca
Once a month I archive my Apache logs. Which involves downloading them from the server and analysing them a little. This month (last month actually, I am slow with my blogging) there was something obviously unusual from the beginning: instead of the typical six or seven logrotated 50MB access logs I had 15. While I …
Continue reading Whee, I got DDOSedMax Stepin (the APNG maintainer) has added APNG support to Chromium. Good job, man!
Continue reading APNG in ChromiumI 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 …
Continue reading GtkFileChooser not choosingI 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 …
Continue reading I thought LibreOffice was going to be betterI’m the last guy to be anal about safety, but this is just hilarious!
Continue reading Saftey first at York UniversityThings would have been different! I guess that’s not the type of machine you can transport on the highway other than in pieces, so here are just the enormous tires:
Continue reading If I had a car like this when I was young…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 …
Continue reading Install all the -dev and -doc packages in Debian/Ubuntu/MintI’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 …
Continue reading Fractions driving game in HTML5 instead of FlashSome of the photos from my first jump, from the 28th of April 2012. Amazing experience!
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