I’m currently writing a program which needs to listen to signals on the system DBus, and I needed a way to monitor the system bus. I followed the directions here, but I…
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Good Documentation
I just came across this post on Slashdot on how to create good documentation. This is a good guide. Too often, documentation that exists out there is not particularly great, or good at…
Log4J2 Setup
I feel that a decent guide on how exactly Log4J2 is setup is in order, because there isn’t a real clear explanation on Apache’s site. Now Apache, I know you guys make…
Java Scanner and Input Streams
This just took me a stupid long time to figure out, so I’m leaving it here for future reference. In Java, the easiest way to read lines is using Scanner. For work,…
C Enums
Enums in C are something special. They’re not strongly typed at all. As it’s pointed out, sometimes enums are used for making bit values, which is rather convenient. However, it would be very…
Software Licences
So I came across this article via Slashdot today, and I figured that I’d post some thoughts on my programming utils and their license. The part that I really noticed was: …younger…
Auto-generation of environments
So I’ve been re-playing GTAIII lately, and I thought of something. How would one make a full city, with full interiors for every building that is there? Couldn’t we just generate all…
FTDI Drivers
So I figured that I’d talk about FTDI’s Linux D2XX drivers for a little bit, and about some odd things that they do. First of all, FTDI makes really nice chips. We…
Linux & Simplicity
A while ago, I posted some thoughts on Linux installing. Just today, I came across this blog post, which covers kindof the same things. The problem that seems to exist now is…
DBus Tutorial Updated
I’ve updated the DBus tutorial. When I moved to WordPress, some of the escaped sequences were not quit rite. So, I’ve fixed all of those, and updated the text a little bit…