Planet Debian
If you have removed a file (or part of a file) from git, it's not immediately obvious how to query its history. Here are two ways to deal with deleted content in git. If we take the following two files: $ ls file1 file2 and then decide to delete one…
4 July 2010Planet GNOME
SQLite is working on WAL, which stands for Write Ahead Logging. The new logging technique means that we can probably keep read statements open for multiple processes. It’s not full MVCC yet as writes are still not doable simultaneously. But in our use…
3 July 2010Planet Mozilla
I applied to lead a session on XULRunner in large software projects at the Mozilla Summit. Unfortunately, that proposal was rejected, no talk for me at the summit. Yet there is apparently some interest in the topic, I got messages from two people who won’t…
2 July 2010Apple Developer News
1 July 2010Planet Mozilla
1 July 2010Planet GNOME
So … what is involved in a “simple change” like what I wrote about yesterday? First you add support for annotating the domain specific index in the ontology files. This is straight forward as we of course have a generic Turtle parser, and it’s just a…
1 July 2010Macworld
Do you know the difference between Command-F and Command-Shift-F? How you start a Finder search affects what options you see. Learn the differences, and start your searches off on the right foot every time.
30 June 2010Macworld
You've updated your iPhone 3G to iOS 4 and it's reeeeeaaally slow. Here are steps for rolling it back to OS 3.1.3.
30 June 2010Planet GNOME
We store our data in a decomposed way. For single value properties we create a table per class and have a column per property. Multi value properties go in a separate table. For now I’ll focus on those single value properties. Imagine you have a…
30 June 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Graphic Design Recent versions of Webkit, the browser engine that Safari and Chrome are based on, have allowed for extensive use of CSS3, as well as some proprietary CSS tricks. The result has been some very innovative art created entirely…
29 June 2010