YASDW - yet another software developer weblog

Sep 01

Random Links #259

Better Configuration Files
We should have a common convention here
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)
Well, I don’t know
50 Amazing Free Icon Sets
Lot’s of (high quality) Icons again

Aug 31

Random Links #258

Accessing the system clipboard
using the clipboard with vim
EpicWin Turns Your To-Do List into a Role-Playing Game, Available Now
What a great idea!
Five Things You Should Know About …Java Generics
more or less java basics
Still Not Virtualized? Take the Leap
virtualize!

Aug 30

Random Links #257

Can You Be Too Old For Software Development?
No – passion is not age related
Swarmation
“Get into the formation before the countdown expires.” – brilliant
RubyDoc.info: Good Looking, Up-To-Date Ruby Documentation
Documentation for all gems on rubygems.org
Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources
What a huge, high quality collection

Aug 29

Random Links #256

One year of Google Android development
A success story more or less
Let Larry know you care
Gosling’s T-shirts and mugs for a free java
Pimp My Ubuntu 01 – Elementary Desktop
Nochmal Elementary, diesmal mit besserer Anleitung (und tollem Ergebnis)

Aug 27

Random Links #255

The anatomy of a crash, part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV
A corrupt firmware update caused a major downtime of hattrick.org, maybe the world largest online football manager game
Warning! Deadlines are closer than they appear
Andy Hunt’s newest warning sign
a brief guide to life
less work, more play?

Aug 26

Random Links #254

Color Picker
A Html/Javascript Color Picker
Top 10 Most Important Pages Every Blog Or Website Should Have
My ToDo list is getting longer and longer.
Java 7 : The new try-with-resources statement
like “using” in C#

Aug 25

Random Links #253

Why Does Simplicity Escape Programmers?
Signed. And I love the ‘Cosmic rays’ story.
I’ve found my software as cracked download on Internet, what to do?
A recently closed stackoverflow question with lots of comments and answers. Interesting and entertaining!
ShiceWM – “Shiki-Colors” für/for IceWM
Gibt’s das auch in khaki? SCNR

Aug 24

Random Links #252

Dynamic favicons
Wow. I like this idea.
Polymaps
An svg library. Worth a try!
My Vim Setup
I think it’s time to post my .vimrc …

Aug 23

Random Links #251

Beautiful Examples of Transparent Screen Trick Photos
Excellent photos!
PyMT
An open source python multitouch library. Cross-platform!
JUnit 4 in a minute !!
Really in one minute.

Aug 22

Random Links #250

Waste #1: Partially Done Work
The second half of the article is the better one
Quotes of the Week
BDUF edition?
HTML 5 – Periodic Table of the Elements
All html 5 tags in a periodic table. Nice.