I’m quite sure that Ubuntu 7.0.4 (Feisty Fawn) with GNOME 2.18 locked my screen when I closed the lid of my laptop. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) with GNOME with 2.20 did not until I made this change under the hood. The XML below can be imported with gconftool –load. <gconfentryfile> <entrylist base=”/apps/gnome-power-manager/lock”> <entry>… Continue reading Lock screen when I close the laptop lid
Month: December 2007
Rest in peace, Netscape
The end of life for the Netscape web browser was announced yesterday in the blog article End of Support for Netscape web browsers. Of course, everyone I know switched to Firefox a long time ago, so I can’t say this has any impact but a small emotion of nostalgia, something like when I heard of… Continue reading Rest in peace, Netscape
I want to read “Peopleware” again
Bruce Eckel recommends Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) in his recent weblog entry The Mythical 5%. When I ordered a bunch of book recently I was thinking of including both The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks and Peopleware, but I didn’t. It is probably a good idea to… Continue reading I want to read “Peopleware” again
Enterprise ready
I would have ordered an Enterprise ready T-shirt on the spot if they had my size in stock.
Holiday project!
The day before yesterday I registered a domain name for a new project and yesterday (while recovering from a really upset stomach) I wrote three A5 pages with a database model, sketchy requirements and possible features. All from very basic ones (“It shall be possible to register a new user account”) to some that are… Continue reading Holiday project!
I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden
If I wasn’t content about living in my corner of Sweden, I would have knocked on ThoughtWorks door a long time ago. I consider them to be one of the most interesting companies around and some people I admire work there, most notably Martin Fowler and Dan North. Today I read in Ola Bini’s blog… Continue reading I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden
Ant “replace” task does not preserve Unix file permissions
This is probably a well-known fact for everyone who has used Ant on Unix for a while, but an annoying discovery for me who have been hiding under a C++ rock. The five year old bug report File Permissions not preserved in replace task pretty much says it all: Java couldn’t stat files, and it… Continue reading Ant “replace” task does not preserve Unix file permissions
Beautiful Code
I’ve been reading Beautiful Code from time to time during the autumn. It’s mixed bag and I actually skipped some chapter that was too deep into maths for my taste. Chapter 22: A Spoonful of Sewage was an instant favorite; it is a a fascinating head-first dive into a bug hunt in Sun Solaris’ synchronization… Continue reading Beautiful Code
Android SDK version m3-rc37a released
A new Android SDK was announced in the Android Developers Blog. As I have previously written in Swedish in my personal blog, I want to make an Android application that acts on incoming phone calls. I never figured this out when I tried but it seems like someone have now. Maybe I’ll play with it… Continue reading Android SDK version m3-rc37a released
Old and new Ruby and Agile books
A bunch of computer books I had ordered arrived to the office last week. Since I’m working on-site at my client I’m not at the office very often so didn’t pick them up until today. The books are: Agile Software Development With Scrum by Mike A. Beedle and Ken Schwaber Agile Web Development With Rails… Continue reading Old and new Ruby and Agile books