Like most people that program perl I know from experience that use strict on top of every perl script is the way to go. I got reminded again that this is very important. I had to add piece of functionnality to a existing pm running in mod_perl. This big pm had no use strict. I [...]
Filed under: writings on April 28th, 2005 | No Comments »
I was reading a article about the new 64bit processors. They where saying that only 64bit applications will take real advantage off the 64bit cpu. But they also add is that only good coded 64bit programs will take advantage. This last statement shows that people know there is a ‘bad’ trend in programming. With all [...]
Filed under: writings on April 24th, 2005 | No Comments »
I did installed a non intrusice x on my “Sarge” debian system. It works nice with the transprancy and the drop shadows. But it need some polishing and some more stability. Afterwards I had a ubuntu install here on the desktop next to me so I tried the dropshadows and the transparancy also. Looks bit [...]
Filed under: linux on April 21st, 2005 | No Comments »
My longtime favorite windowmanager is fluxbox. Got a nice Aqua theme going on. Few nice icons on the right with idesk and on the left gkrellm. Love it clean and crisp. Got even a nice virtual desktop layout. ALT+F1 = Firefox ALT-F2 = Krusader + transparant aterms ALT+F3 = Remote desktops, vmwares, openoffice, … ALT+F4 [...]
Filed under: linux on April 14th, 2005 | No Comments »