- SCons — build your software better
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Posted on August 9th, 2011
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A few years ago I worked on a large (60+ man-year) software project, involving C/C++ and Java. The software stack originated from demonstrator software, and its make files had become unmanageable, and even worse, unreliable. After evaluating a lot of options we rewrote the entire build system based around SCons.
A few weeks ago an ex-collaegue contacted me with some questions how we approached things back then.
Today, while attending a children's birthday party a discussion on...
- Statetris Reloaded
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Posted on July 16th, 2011
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- Statetris never turned out the way I intented it to be. Sure, the idea was sound. When I first launched it in 2007 it was a top story on Digg. The iPhone version got far less traction. Of course, educational gaming is a niche market, but it surely does not help that I was late at entering iPhone development and rushed the game into the app store as fast as possible.
- Workrave 1.9.0 released
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Posted on July 15th, 2008
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This release contains the following: Fixed transparency of tray icon on Linux, new alternate activity
moniting for Windows, improved 64 bit & Vista support, exercises are
now randomized, the language can now be selected in the preferences
(Windows), the option 'Start Workrave when Windows starts' has been
added to the preferences, extended DBUS support on Unix, initial OSX
port, networking support can now be enabled without accepting incoming
connections from other Workraves, a sound has been added that
indicates a next step...
- Workrave 1.8.5 released
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Posted on September 29th, 2007
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Task manager is never blocked by Workrave, workaround for focus loss
on Vista, Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian, fixed
breaks that have 'suspend timer when inactive' disabled, improved
Windows responsiveness under high load, mode menu fixed, Gnome applet
no longer 'hangs', Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave, fixed
crashes during startup on Windows, fixed 'end-of-microbreak' sound,
fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed multiple windows
on a single screen, fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver
installed. Many thanks to Ray Satiro...
- Launched Festisite's Personalized Money Generator
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Posted on April 13th, 2007
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I launched another gimmick, fun for use on your blog or for handing
out:
Festisite's
Personalized Money Generator
. Go ahead, and slap your own
photograph on a dollar bill... other than that,
festisite.com
more or less
restructures several poem related web pages from
dotsphinx.com
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- Workrave 1.8.4 released
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Posted on March 4th, 2007
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This version contains many new translations: Italian (Eraldo Girardi), Chinese (Tao Wei),
Slovak (Peter Tuharsky), Greek (Prokopis Prokopidis), Turkish (Enver
Altin), Japanese (Masanobu Yokota), Bulgarian (Ivan Dimov), Hungarian
(Ory Mate). Furthermore, more polish on the applets was done (e.g. vertical
applet support), and the usual bug fixing.
- MapMSG extension: Crop circles
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Posted on March 3rd, 2007
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Today I added an extension to the
MapMSG.com
site. Next to smoke signals, you
can now also craft your own crop circles...
- MapMSG unleashed
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Posted on February 2nd, 2007
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I released a new site...
Signalling using land marks is an ancient form of
communication. Compare this to e-mail, hardly available for half a
century and already collapsing by spam.Forget about boring e-cards
with flashy animations. Instead, send a unique satellite-visible
message, originating from your own house...
Enter:
MapMSG.com
- Greek leaflet and upcoming translation
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Posted on December 20th, 2006
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The leaflet is now also available in
Greek
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Furthermore, the next version will also feature a complete Greek
translation of Workrave. Thanks, Prokopis Prokopidis.
- Workrave branded for Chiropraktik Hirschengraben
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Posted on December 20th, 2006
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A branded version of Workrave is now available, on request of
Chiropraktik
Hirschengraben
. This version features (next to branding): exercise images using real
photography, audible (spoken) exercises, and preconfigured fixed
settings. The branded version was created by
IntenCT
, a company started by
Raymond Penners. In compliance to the GPL, all modifications are available in our source archive as well.