That’s not an easy title for me to write, but one that I’m increasingly convinced is correct. The prognosis may not be looking good, but there is still a small glimmer of life.
When I started BeClan I had one simple objective in mind - to bring the developers and users together and promote people [...]

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After almost 2 weeks off being back at work was strange, but within minutes it felt like I’d never been away! Funny how that always seems to be the case isn’t it? It did kick start me to carry on working on the packager though and thanks to some input from Mikael Eiman I amanged [...]

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Having had my digital camera (a Sony DSC P-9) and using it a lot over the last couple of years while in Scotland I played a little with doing panorama’s and then stitching them together. The results are available here and here.

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Had 2 good day walks this week, though the ascent to White Coomb involved crossing a stream that was almost bankfull and then fighting through storm force winds blowing hail! Not quite typical weather for Scotland at this time of year! Pictures will follow soon.
Having been away from the computer for a few [...]

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The original code that I cobbled together to provide an aggregated feed for BeClan was always a little on the ropey side and didn’t like some people’s feeds regardless of how correctly formed they were. Thom used the Planet code (written in python) for his Planet Apache site, prompting me to look at the whole [...]

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One of the (many) projects I’ve been working on is BLT. BLT aims to be a libtool replacement for BeOS platforms and uses C++ instead of the shell scripts that GNU libtool uses. It aims to be as compliant as possible and I’ve been using it to build of different things on my system for [...]

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In an effort to try and stay just about up to date I’ve moved from b2 to WordPress. The process seems simple on paper, but I didn’t find it so! I ended up using mysqladmin to mess with tables which for an install seems whacked and silly. the end result is that I’m not [...]

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I’ve so far been using this site to simply provide a simple way of posting larger pieces that I wrote last year to try and provoke some discussion within the community. Since then life has been hectic and I’ve now come to the conclusion that the time it takes to write such large pieces isn’t [...]

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