Manuel Klimek

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. [...]

This information is outdated!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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]