Recent Articles
Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
Sunday, May 3, 2009
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
Computers don't solve problems, they execute solutions.
Projects
Software...Build and Make
Cons is an interesting spin that replaces make by using Perl scripts instead of Makefiles.
CMake is an alternative to make that aims to make compiler and platform independent configuration files.
amake make utility.
tmake make utility.
BuildBot automates the compile and test cycle. The primary goal behind this one is to notice breaks in the code quickly.
CMake Cross Platform Make [www.cmake.org]
AMake's Home Page (2.10.20) [amake.sourceforge.net]
SourceForge.net: Project Info - tmake [sourceforge.net]
The BuildBot [buildbot.sourceforge.net]
Software...Build and MakeBuild and Make
Sunday, February 12, 2006 by digitalpeer
CMake is an alternative to make that aims to make compiler and platform independent configuration files.
amake make utility.
tmake make utility.
BuildBot automates the compile and test cycle. The primary goal behind this one is to notice breaks in the code quickly.
External Links Summary
CONS: A Make replacement [dsmit.com]CMake Cross Platform Make [www.cmake.org]
AMake's Home Page (2.10.20) [amake.sourceforge.net]
SourceForge.net: Project Info - tmake [sourceforge.net]
The BuildBot [buildbot.sourceforge.net]
