Programming
DIY – Open Source Programming
Thursday, August 5th, 2010I’m currently working on an open source project – which I won’t reveal just yet, because it’s still in the early development stage. The idea came to light about 6 ~ 8 months ago. Speaking to ‘Insanity’, he suggested – nay, encouraged – to write up a full outline of the what, when and how. [...]
Apport integration
Friday, December 25th, 2009So for the last day or two I have been attempting to add support for bug reports from within the application. In the spirit of open-source, I have searched around and found that Apport seems to be heavily used in Ubuntu, and has clean integration with http://bugs.launchpad.net/, which is my chosen bug tracking system for [...]
Technological Complacency
Monday, March 2nd, 2009It seems that as society has progressed, people have become lazy – complacent. No longer are we required to think innovatively to solve problems – we’ve become relient on machines to work it out for us. A classic example was in a historic show I watched a few years back. Their goal was to try [...]
Standards – Introduction
Friday, September 12th, 2008From time to time, standards are created; They’re not a bad thing ultimately – except when you have certain groups or individuals that try to push – and force – them onto people to follow. One popular one that has been discussed / debated is the ‘web standards’; but that isn’t the point of todays [...]
Mythological reputations
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008I’ve had a hell of a month. I have been spending most of this year so far working with a large expensive piece of software called MATLAB. By expensive, I mean the student version is over $100 for the most basic package. By expensive, I mean the research package starts at $1000 and climbs somewhat [...]
License to Code…
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Update: If you think licensing doesn’t matter to you as a programmer… check out this article about how the PwnageTool developers may have lost control of their source code. Licenses do matter! You know, I really haven’t been alive for that along. Less than 3 decades still. And yet, I am often in awe at [...]
On the contrary (subtitled: Rapid Application Development)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008In complete and utter polar opposite to Insanity’s last post, my job as a programmer does not require me to write a single line of code. Ever. I can (and my boss has, more than once) build massive enterprise systems without ever encountering a syntax error, a mis-placed semi-colon or an any sort of incompatibility. [...]
Hurts so sweet…
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Well… it’s been a long and seemingly unproductive day today. Anyone who’s ever used Linux for a period of time can probably relate to this feeling: you have an issue, but no matter what you do the program/problem wont behave as you would like. In my case, I have been attempting to get Steam, Wine [...]
Joel and leaving things un-finished
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008I was going to write a bit about automatic SQL Index Selection and why I’m hating it at the moment, but the blog isn’t letting me upload media, so it’ll have to wait and you can read something else I wrote to fill in the blank space: If any of you are not familiar with [...]