Archive for the ‘Coding’ Category
Friday, January 21st, 2011
If you remember my earlier post(s) you probably ask where the highly anticipated version one dot zero remains. Originally we planned to release it by the end of 2010, but we couldn't really meet that date because we really wanted to polish a couple of things before releasing it. So ...
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
The last couple of days I went through a little nightmare: I needed to debug a Java application which showed some weird behaviour only when loaded via WebStart, but not when executed within Eclipse.
Multiple internet resources told me to use the JAVAWS_VM_ARGS environment variable to tell the Java VM to ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
The monotone team holds a "docathon" - a small documentation sprint - next Sunday, Dec 19th 2010, starting at 18:00 UTC for approx. 6hrs. During this time we meet on IRC and want to collaboratively tidy the wiki pages, further improve the manual, update INSTALL and cleanup other text-based files ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
Sorry that it took a while, but I got largely distracted by other things. Finally the Windows installer binary for guitone 1.0rc5 is available for download - compiled under WinXP SP3 with Qt 4.7.1.
Please let me know if you encounter problems, for example by reporting issues in guitone's bug ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Until now "the cloud" (the computing paradigm) was for me more or less a fuzzy defined hype I missed to really "see" the advantages of: I delegate infrastructure resources to some external "hoster" and pay for that, but I instantly got this nagging fear that I'll loose full control over ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
I'm proud to announce the immediate release of guitone 1.0rc5. This fifth release candidate requires monotone 0.99.1 or later. The plan is to release guitone 1.0 final together with monotone 1.0 final
by the end of this year.
Amongst some minor bug fixes, this release also features a new "server mode" with ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Newer versions of Qt come with the nice and handy tool macdeployqt - I think it first appeared offically in 4.6. What this basically does is that it looks for linked Qt libraries and plugins in your binary file and copies the needed ones over to your application bundle, ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
I was on a scrum master certification over the last two days, lead by Joseph Pelrine, and beside the enormous amount of knowledge on Scrum and the not lower amount of anecdotes and stories he experienced with [insert famous IT company here], he came out with one particular interesting hypothesis:
"Doing ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
The monotone team just released 0.99.1 of its version control system. This is a minor patch release which fixes two regressions:
If monotone 0.99 was built on x86_64, a missing variable initialization lead to a crash when parsing netsync URLs.
monotone 0.99 reported wrongly 12.1 as automate interface version number, whereas this ...
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
[Update] Unfortunately some last minute changes make this release break on x86_64 - the issue has been fixed in the meantime, the patch is available here. My apologies, we'll put out a new release shortly. [/Update]
We, the monotone developers, are very proud to release version 0.99
of our distributed version control ...
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