http://foobar.lu/wp coding should be fun Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been down that road many times: "What folder takes up the most disk space". Over the time lots of junk accumulates on one's disk. So far the following one-liner has been a trusty companion: [cc=bash] $ du -s * | sort -n [/cc] Some other tools are available of which I don't remember ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2010/03/05/making-file-size-view-in-konqueror-suck-less/ In case you're running into the same trouble as me, that dialog buttons are not "clickable" anymore under Eclipse, just add the following line to one of your linux startup scripts to fix the problem: export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 http://foobar.lu/wp/2010/02/01/dialog-buttons-not-responding-in-eclipse-under-kdegnome/ Several weeks ago I was scouting the Internet for a Zend Framework cheatsheet and I found a blog entry somewhere about a Zend Framework Cheatsheet Poster, created by a German company called Mayflower. On their blog they say, if you're an eager Zend Framework developer and want to get your copy ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2009/12/31/mayflower-zend-framework-cheatsheet/ Problem: [cc] $ easy_install psycopg2 Searching for psycopg2 ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2009/10/29/unable-to-easy_install-psycopg2-on-debian/ as a php developer i'm using zend studio for eclipse on a daily basis. sometimes zend studio forgets about my zend framework projects, especially projects which are hosted on a SVN repository. i close my project, reopen it, and for no obvious reasons zend studio no longer recognizes it as ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2009/06/16/zend-studio-forgetting-about-your-zf-project/ this morning i stumbled over a website which is used to track postal deliveries, by our local post office. P&T Luxembourg. it works pretty much like any other tracking service. you go to the website, enter the tracking code an tada... you get all the details corresponding to the entered tracking ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2009/04/23/worst-practice-ever/ Please, for the love of $deity do not hit me..... This is going to be a post about excel! Excel is a horrid solution for data entry, and even worse for data archival. And yet, it's one of the most commonly used solutions. One of the most useful information in any ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2009/02/19/add-creation-and-modification-timestamps-to-an-excel-worksheet/ this week i've stumbled over the following video. the video shows a presentation from Jason Fried from "37Signals" about how he runs his company. as i'm working for a small internet service provider myself, i found this video very inspiring and a must-see for everybody in the business. i think that there are ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2008/10/24/best-how-to-run-your-internet-company-video-ever/ This really seems to be a trend in software development. Especially on the Web. We have organisations like the W3C that continuously struggle to promote interoperability and standards.While developing I am trying to re-use as much of that knowledge as possible. Afterall, if someone already made the effort to solve ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2008/09/24/throwing-standards-out-the-window/ One thing I have been asking myself quite often lately: "Why do - even popular - open source projects often have mediocre coding standards?" My first thought was: Ok, most likely many of the projects were written by non IT-professionals who only code "out of their head" without thinking things through ... http://foobar.lu/wp/2008/09/04/demographics-of-open-source-projects/