The Jeans Team has produced an absolutely excellent song, the summer hit for 2006 (german language). The MP3 is not available for download any more, but at least you can watch it on YouTube:
It took me about 3 minutes to translate the lyrics, so here they are:
If you use Linux on a Laptop, chances are high that you can dramatically improve the responsiveness of all your GUI applications. This tip will work for you if you:
In short, the trick is to disable powernowd and use the ondemand governor instead. How to do this in Ubuntu comes later, let me first show you what this change gets you. In short, you get maximum performance and a longer battery life.
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With this little tool you can extract almost any archive in Linux so you do not need to remember which tool and what command lines are necessary.
I got fed up with the sheer impossible number of compression formats out there. I am an avid linux command line user, but remembering 20 different commands with strange switches to get to the juicy content of a compressed files is too much for me.
Therefore I have just happily spent a few hours of my life to write the application e that identifies which extraction tool to call with what parameter in order to save me precious seconds of rereading forgotten manpages.
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After reading about Behaviour Driven Development, using jMock for a while, and since I am very fond of Ruby‘s core class APIs, I am sure the assertations of JUnit need a major overhaul.
This are the goals I have for the redesign:
Recently there has been quite a bit of fuss about Behaviour Driven Development. So, what is it all about? You should have a look at that presentation from Dave Astels, it is quite interesting:
You can also view and download the video here.