Month: May 2013
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software design paradigm “convention over configuration” applied in software testing
Convention over configuration – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I created a testing framework for one of my projects, and for quite a while I maintained the test cases in a “configuration data structure” (luckily) with rather strict conventions. Let me call that a CDS! I listed every single test case with all its necessary details…
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openSUSE-12.3 : upgrading again …
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/12.3/ The least risky approach to upgrading a system should be by cloning it as a virtual machine, and upgrade the clone. That’s what I did this time, and it worked, and I am rather happy. Of course upgrades always come with unexpected effort. I downloaded the “Network / 64 Bit PC” ISO image, moved…
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O’Reilly Media book: Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition
Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition – O’Reilly Media Chapter 7: Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing Using Tabs Indenting Text Centering Text Using Outline Mode Rectangle Editing Making Simple Drawings (M-x edit-picture -> picture mode) For creating a vertical line switch to picture mode and change the default direction. Sometimes I need this for creating a table from…
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my openSUSE VirtualBox VM and its /var/log/messages
For quite a while I had messages like these in /var/log/messages on that VM: collectd[…]: rrdtool plugin: … dbus[…]: [system] … ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ … Today I got rid of both of them. It wasn’t really difficult or exhausting to find those issues “on the Net“. I should have done that long ago. But other issues always…
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Google’s chat client drops Jabber compatibility – The H Open: News and Features
Google’s chat client drops Jabber compatibility – The H Open: News and Features
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a few remarks Google Reader and its competitors
Google will shut down Google Reader on 2013-07-01. I like(d) Firefox Sage a lot, but it does not synchronise between my various devices, so I really only consider web-based feed readers. Competing web-based feed readers: InoReader.com – looks best to me (I selected InoReader as my GR replacement); InoReader.com/forum feedly.com – at least one organisational level; comes…
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Rakudo on JVM progress update, and some questions answered | 6guts
Rakudo on JVM progress update, and some questions answered | 6guts
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RIP Google Reader: Google’s RSS Reader Will Shut Down On 2013-07-01
RIP Google Reader: Google’s RSS Reader Will Shut Down On July 1st