Posted in Software on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
I just stumbled across The Joel Test. The Joel Test is an easy best practice pattern you can use to optimize your productivity. When I read Joel's article I immediately got a new insight into programming psychology.
Why do programmers hate to throw away code?
Like Joel says, programmers really tend to object to throwing away code. [...]
Posted in Software on Nov 24th, 2006 15 Comments »
This information is outdated! See Mobile Ubuntu Colinux Setup for more information, even if you're not using a "mobile" setup ;-)
In the last years colinux became one of my most valued tools for cross platform software development. Colinux is a user mode linux, running as a Windows process. This way you don't need to dual [...]
Posted in Books on Nov 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
When I was a teenager I used to sit at my computer many hours a day, pondering about interesting computing problems, like writing a magic eye 3d creator or a cool battletech computer game. The first important computer book I read (after reading the micrsoft basic handbook) was "Spiele programmieren mit QBASIC" (Programming games in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2006 No Comments »
In their last elections, the USA managed to show the world that a missionary is not necessarily a role model. Germany is not the showpiece of political leadership, but at least we've got a working democracy - until recently, when they started to think about introducing 'election machines'.
The problem with election machines is, that you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
When I first tried google codesearch I was impressed. But then I tried to enter " sco " ibm. Follow the link and look at the first entry found - the file regexpI.h and read the comment at the top.
Ok, this is just a small header and I couldn't find more information on SCO and IBM. But, [...]