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I’m using the thunderbird conversations add-on and am generally quite happy with it. One pain point however is that its quick reply feature has a really small text area for replying. This is especially annoying if you want to reply … Continue reading →

I have been a bit more quiet on this blog (and in the community) lately, but for somewhat good reasons. I’ve recently finished my PhD thesis titled On the dynamics of human locomotion and the co-design of lower limb assistive … Continue reading →

I think I’m not the only one who dreads visiting the hog that is bugzilla. It is very aptly named, but a real pain to work with at times. Mostly, what I really don’t like about bugzilla is that it’s … Continue reading →

Quite a while back, I introduced gedit code assistance, a plugin for gedit which uses clang to provide various C/C++ code assistance features to gedit such as diagnostics and cross-referencing. The plugin worked reasonably, but there were a few iss … Continue reading →

We’ve just released a minor new version of gitg. This release fixes some small issues with regard to packaging (man page installation, parallel install, updated dependency versions). As always, we appreciate any issues reported back to us. I’ve also added … Continue reading →

When we switched gitg to Vala, we initially had some problems making the build work correctly. Parallel build especially gave us a lot of headaches. Just so that if someone else runs into the same problems, here are some thoughts … Continue reading →

Some while ago, I bought a WD Live (2T) type of NAS for use as a media server/backup storage at home. From various other solutions for  running this type of thing, I was pretty happy with the WD Live. It’s … Continue reading →

I would like to introduce my latest project that I have spent some time on developing in the last weeks. cldoc is a clang based documentation generator for C and C++. I started this project because I was not satisfied … Continue reading →

Recently I wanted to play a bit with the Arduino family of atmega microcontroller development board. I wanted a very simple to use and easy to develop for, small microcontroller board and went with the Arduino Nano v3.0. It’s really pretty … Continue reading →

Here is a nice little snippet to make sure your go code passes gofmt before committing. Put this in .git/hooks/pre-commit: #!/bin/sh set -e d=`mktemp -d –tmpdir gofmtcheck-XXXXXX` git checkout-index –prefix “$d/” -a ret=`find . -regex ‘.*\.go$’ -exec gofmt -d ‘{}’ … Continue reading →