They released me from the hospital after nearly killing me with a “chicken” “sandwich” on “whole wheat” “bread”. They told me nothing was wrong with me and my first Malaria screen came back negative (yayy!). I also don’t have tuberculosis (YAYY!). Tomorrow there’s another round of tests though so we’ll see.
As for the [...]
Posting from my phone. Jess and I have been feeling on and off crappy since getting back from the DR in Dec. Finally decided to go to the Doctor this morn. They sent me to a lab for bloodwork and I fainted while standing in line. Rode in ambulance. [...]
I’ve used my share of window managers and desktop environments over the years; I think the progression went something like this: DOS (single window?) -> DESQview -> Windows 3.1 through WinNT -> WindowMaker -> Enlightenment -> IceWM -> Fluxbox -> E17 -> XFce -> KDE 3.x -> KDE 3.x with Compiz-Fusion -> Gnome + Compiz, [...]
In case you’ve been living under a rock or something and haven’t heard about Qt, it’s a cross-platform application framework that’s most famously known for being the underlying widget toolkit for the KDE desktop environment for *nixes.
Prior to a couple weeks ago I had never played with Qt, and I actually had sort of a [...]
I’ve noticed over the years that for the majority of computer scientists design is something we either love or hate. And however unfortunate it may be, I think either way design is usually a bit of an after thought, or at the least it’s a moving target. High level design can usually be [...]
It’s been a long time since my last update, 5 months to the day in fact, and a crazy 5 months at that. Since June I have finished writing, and successfully defended my Master’s thesis, moved to another province (this is now the 5th province I’ve lived in), and started a new job.
The first [...]
It’s been about a year and half since I started actively using D — I’ve written (and maintained) a couple of small commercial applications in it, and taken maintainership over a couple of D related open source projects, but most of my experience with the language comes from using it to write my thesis project [...]
Everyone knows the diatribe spouted by certain types of programming evangelists that a good garbage collector can give a program higher memory throughput than one under manual memory management (or some equivalent scheme like reference counting) — not only that but manually managing your own memory is pretty much a waste of good development time; [...]
Gizmo Daemon, just got accepted into Ubuntu’s official Universe repository!
