It’s official, Liberation Mono is still the best Free font for programming. I’ve been using Liberation Mono in my text editors since it was first announced having tried various other fonts with varying states of Freeness. Then along came the Droid fonts and I thought I’d try them too. I have two criteria for programming […]
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Packages built from source use the prefix /usr/local by default which is not set up in the in the Fedora system and library paths. The majority of the documentation on the net seems to suggest Fedora users just pass —prefix=/usr to configure scripts but this can obviously cause problems in the long term (writing over […]
I think I’m becoming a bit of a programming tools geek, spent a bit of time over the weekend reading Understanding Darcs over on Wiki Books. I found the section on patch theory interesting and I’m looking at using Darcs for my personal projects for a while, see how I get on. I also engaged […]
Thursday, December 6, 2007
I have various projects in the pipeline, some which are at the “design” (a.k.a nothing done for it yet) stage and one which is at the playing with code stage. As I intend for at least two of these projects to be cross platform I decided I’d best investigate and choose a build system to […]
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I’ve spent quite a bit of downtime of late thinking about version control systems. There has been a lot of talk at the NLUG about DVCSs, Martin even gave a niece overview of current systems and techniques, which has lead to me pondering usage models for VCSs. More recently some of the developers of Adium […]
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