Category Archives: Other Software

Performance of “Method Calls” on “Clojure Objects”

Posted on April 13, 2016 by

tl;dr There are various ways for implementing objects or object-like constructs with Clojure. Besides differences with respect to implementation aspects, these ways also differ with respect to their performance. In this post, I write about the results of some simple … Continue reading →

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New #SailfishOS Apps for #Jolla – MeePasswords, Q To-Do, Emumaster

Posted on December 26, 2013 by

This is a brief, combined announcement. Two of my own apps, MeePasswords and Q To-Do, as well as another app, Emumaster, I had been porting a bit are available for SailfishOS/Jolla. I actually want to publish MeePasswords and Q To-Do … Continue reading →

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Zotero on Nexus7 in Plasma Active, Updated

Posted on August 3, 2013 by

I put a little more work into running Zotero on Plasma Active tablets. First of all, it is now possible to install Zotero via zypper. You can get Zotero from my xulrunner branch repository on Mer OBS. Furthermore, it now … Continue reading →

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Note to self: Resize animated PNG (APNG)

Posted on August 3, 2013 by

Interestingly, animated PNG (APNG) files seem to be so scarce that neither Gimp nor ImageMagick support this format. In fact, it took me quite a bit of searching until I found a way to scale an animated PNG preserving the … Continue reading →

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Zotero on Nexus7 in Plasma Active

Posted on July 28, 2013 by

Zotero, in a nutshell, is a pretty sophisticated literature management tool. It lets you, “… collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.” In this post I briefly present how I got Zotero running on the Nexus7 tablet in Plasma … Continue reading →

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Nexus 7, Linux, Accelerometer, sensorfw

Posted on July 22, 2013 by

This is just a brief wrap up about a patch I just submitted: in a nutshell, this patch enables the practical use of the acceleration sensor on Nexus 7 in Linux. Thanks a lot to Glueckself who posted a first … Continue reading →

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GTK+ Editable Menu Accelerators

Posted on July 17, 2013 by

One never stops learning. I was reminded of this just very recently when I discovered a very cool feature of GTK+ which I wasn’t aware off even though I have been using Linux-based OS as my main OS for more … Continue reading →

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BB10: QCA, QMF, and QMLCanvas compiled for BB10

Posted on June 24, 2013 by

Recently, I ported some of my apps (MeePasswords, Q To-Do) to BB10. These apps use some Open Source projects as dependencies that were not readily available for BB10 yet; at least I couldn’t find them. So, I decided to give … Continue reading →

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test2junit: Bugfix

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Due to an embarrassing error in test2junit I had to quickly release another version. The current version 1.0.1 fixes the problem and is available from clojars.org. The readme at github had been updated as well.

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test2junit: Leiningen Plug-in for Writing Test Results in JUnit XML Format

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

I like test-driven development very much. Over time the number of test cases grows and grows. As one consequence, it may become difficult to keep the overview of the results. As a simple mean to get an overview of my … Continue reading →

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