At long last it is finally out! “A journey through IT history explaining why SDLC Waterfall Model is Software Engineering and AGILE will never be.” As distribution updates trickle out to other retailers you should see it at Barnes & Nobles, BAM and most other online book sellers. As of right now, these are the places Google finds it: eBay (not me) Adlibris Booktopia Now I can finish up with the Diamond text editor and … The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILERead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 17
I’m putting this here because I discovered it while trying to fix a rather horrible “busy” dialog in the Advanced Search portion of Diamond. I had to create a GUI “Hello World” application to test this out so I could file a “simple” bug report. According to the doc animated GIF is supported on all platforms. The code for Linux is a tad behind the documentation. When I build and run this on Ubuntu 20.04 … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 17Read more
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Sometimes Cheap Stuff Can Really Amaze You
Back in 2019 I bought some of these things on eBay. I don’t know why, but my small cheap USB wifi adapters seem to walk off. Normally I hard wire network connections simply because it is more secure, but sometimes you are forced to use wireless. In my office back on the farm I don’t care too much. I care more about it when I’m in corporate housing. Ultimately that is an apartment complex and … Sometimes Cheap Stuff Can Really Amaze YouRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16
Now we must create a minimal GUI “Hello World” to use testing out the theory. It will also be needed as a bug report test case if this turns out to be a bug rather than “should have had this switch on when building CopperSpice.” In a terminal I did the following: In both CMakeLists.txt files I changed all cs_hello to cs_gui_hello and changed all Cs_Hello to Cs_GUI_Hello. I also updated the README.md. Then I … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15
I do apologize for the burstiness of these posts and sometimes skipping around. I don’t have much free time so I write these posts when something tends to piss me off or befuddle me. Today it was an animated gif. I got that gif from Icons8. Yes, a site generating nice simple “loading” and/or “busy” animated gifs that are free to use and even has a little tool on the site that allows you to … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15Read more