Recently I was musing about this topic and was trying to find reasons for this phenomenon. When I was running my company I interviewed several developers for open positions, and interestingly there was an unspeakable imbalance in the gender ratio. Namely I can only recall two ladies I interviewed, out of about a hundred subjects.… Read More Why are there so few female software developers in Hungary?
I’ve been using boxee for some time for my home media. As I’ve recently upgraded my box to the pre-release version of Ubuntu (Natty Narval Alpha 2 at the time of writing) I found that the package provided by boxee is both outdated and references packages outdated in the new version of Ubuntu (libxmlrpc-c3 is… Read More Building streamlined boxee for Ubuntu Natty
Reading the post about useful regular expressions, remembered what my favourite solution is to one of the questions of the test we give to junior Java developers. The task is to write a method that takes a string as a parameter and returns the acronym of the string in uppercase made up of the first… Read More Regexp fun
As I see there is a solid movement to reform the user interfaces that are in use in our computers. After all the menu bars with a start menu are on the mainstream desktops since the win95/OS2 era. And the programs can be started using icons on the desktop and the start menu. For the… Read More New trends in Linux desktop UIs
I read several feeds daily, like The Daily WTF or friend’s blogs. Since I always have both Thunderbird and Firefox running on my computer, I don’t want a standalone RSS reader application, like Liferea hog my memory. I don’t want to keep a Google page always open to use the Reader either. I took some… Read More Brief – a feed reading extension for Firefox
Insightful post about issues in scheduling. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.
For a recent project lead, we decided to create a mock-up of the application, so the prospective Customer would be able to see that we understand their needs. As I’m not very good at interactive HTML mock-ups I decided to go with Wicket, which seemed to be useful and easy when a friend showed me.… Read More Wicket in action and confusion
I started playing MafiaWars on my last job, where I had time to spare. As it has happened in the past with me playing on a mud, when the game got repetitive I start writing tools to speed things up.When I was on the mud I used macro-enabled clients, like tintin++ to perform simple tasks… Read More Creating for a bot for MafiaWars
After setting up VirtalBox based virtualization on our server, I needed a way to have it automatically started and stopped whenever the host is restarted. Also it would be for the better if the system was not simply started and stopped, but rather saved and restored when possible. I love scripting, but prefer the easy… Read More Starting VirtualBox on boot
After migrating our hosted application to a virtual server I realized, that as usual the system is a “maintenance free” Linux, meaning we set it up as it were and left it running for ages without touching it. On the occasion of power failure the applications were started manually. As I don’t want to restart… Read More Starting DB2 instances on boot