Archive for the ‘Free Software’ Category
Friday, July 11th, 2008
If you're a programmer and you're using a command line heavily, you've certainly come across a big nuisance in the usage of GNU's grep utility: The verbosity you need to exclude files from being searched, such as backup files (*~ or *#) or any kind of vcs inventory stupidity like ...
Posted in Coding, Free Software | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Its not that I'm a newbie, but sometimes I just feel that way. People start and talk in acronyms on IRC, and then it comes out that these acronyms stand for apparently famous people in the Free Software world I should know...
Lets start with an easy one: rms.
Yeah, that was ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If you like to have a laugh today, read this. Found via Rob Weir's blog.
The Monotone Summit goes on and its quite fun to meet and work with all the people I just know from IRC or the mailing list. I mostly worked on automation stuff so far and improved ...
Posted in Free Software, OOXML, guitone, monotone | No Comments »
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
My wife and I seem to share a lot of activities recently. We finally gathered a few friends around here with which we do regularily stuff like playing card games and she even got me to take Salsa dancing lessons with her. Beside that my political interests and meetings are ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Appcasts are RSS feeds which make use of the <enclosure> tag which links to a binary file (usually a software package) somewhere on the internet. Sparkle, a library drop-in for Objective-C/Cocoa Mac OS X development, implements and expands this format to use it as transport description for application updates. With ...
Posted in Appcasting, Coding, Free Software | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Since the GNU General Public License v3 had been released last week I'm actively thinking about switching the license for some of my projects, f.e. guitone, which are currently GPLv2 "or later". The main reason for doing this for me personally is to protect my software even better from any ...
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