Articles in Software Development

blog.volker-lanz.de
There's a blog now with mostly technical content under http://blog.volker-lanz.de. more...

KDE Partition Manager
KDE Partition Manager allows you to manage your disks, partitions and file systems: Create, resize, delete, copy, backup and restore partitions with a large number of supported file systems
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BoxMonster
BoxMonster is a call monitor designed to work with the AVM FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 and compatible models.
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QSynergy
QSynergy is a comprehensive and easy to use graphical front end for Synergy, written on top of the Qt Toolkit. It runs on Unix, Apple Mac OS X and MS Windows. more...

The Black Art of Optimising
Optimising program code for maximum performance is often considered to be some sort of black art. Also, quite a number of programmers believe in micro-optimisations that rarely ever improve program execution time, but nearly always introduce subtle bugs or obfuscate the code, or both. In the following we will have a look at optimisation possibilities that help cut down execution time considerably while still keeping the code clear and easily maintainable. more...

Thirdparty or roll your own?
Dependencies on third party libraries are a liability, too: With your own code, there's a good chance you will be able to do something about it should problems ever arise. With a third party library that doesn't work on a new platform, every line of code in that library suddenly becomes your liability. And it could be millions of liabilities at once. more...