Archiv der Kategorie: English

Unconditionally Make Implicit Prerequisites

Publiziert am 24. September 2011 von Kilian Evang

I’m pretty new to make so maybe the following is trivial and/or horribly bad practice, but here goes: I have this bunch of output directories, each containing a file called en.tok from which I want to make a corrected version, … Weiterlesen →

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And Then There Were None

Publiziert am 5. Juli 2011 von Kilian Evang

Ten guests are invited to a large house on a small island. When they arrive, their host is nowhere to be found. Soon, they hear a mysterious voice that accuses them of being guilty of murder – then, suddenly, one … Weiterlesen →

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My Debian Initiation

Publiziert am 3. Juni 2011 von Kilian Evang

Having switched from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze and pondering ways to combine the security of a largely stable operating system with the additional functionality afforded by individual newer software packages, I recently wondered: Apt pinning seems complicated, why not just … Weiterlesen →

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Unicode Man

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2011 von Kilian Evang

Holy shit, this is awesome: <deep portentous voice used for film trailers>When the fight for internationalisation hots up, mild mannered web developer Martin Sammtleben becomes Unicode Man, defender of diacritics, champion of challenging codepoints. Faced with an ASCII-fixated enemy, Unicode … Weiterlesen →

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Highbrow Java

Publiziert am 30. März 2011 von Kilian Evang

Here’s examples from my actual code of five lesser-known Java features, in increasing order of how much fun I had discovering they exist. Anonymous classes These are fairly well-known, so let’s go for a freaky example – an anonymous class … Weiterlesen →

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Ezri Dax

Publiziert am 30. März 2011 von Kilian Evang

I’m a huge fan of Ezri Dax because she is the only character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine who consistently stands up to Klingon crap. Observe: EZRI: Stop it. WORF: A Klingon would rather die than be held captive! … Weiterlesen →

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Developments in Desktop Environments, Part 2: The Glorious Future

Publiziert am 2. Februar 2011 von Kilian Evang

Yesterday I looked at recent trends in the development of computer desktop environments and noted that the traditional desktop (+ windows + panels + menus) metaphor is being abandoned in favor of a simpler “one thing is on screen at … Weiterlesen →

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Developments in Desktop Environments, Part 1: The Awkward Present

Publiziert am 2. Februar 2011 von Kilian Evang

Once upon a time, when computer operating systems learned to multi-task, their basic user interfaces started to reflect this ability: applications now ran simultaneously in a number of windows that could be freely opened, closed, moved around and resized on … Weiterlesen →

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text/html decoder

Publiziert am 17. Januar 2011 von Kilian Evang

Prompted by this page. Keywords: Firefox, Ubuntu Firefox Modifications, ubufox, WTF.

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Tags Suck

Publiziert am 23. Dezember 2010 von Kilian Evang

I feel a little schadenfreude about the potential demise of Delicious. Not for popularizing social bookmarking, I like that a lot. What I resent them for is popularizing tags. Tags since infest services like Flickr, many blogs and Mendeley. If … Weiterlesen →

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