Month: June 2016
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Gracefully shutting down Firefox, to avoid the crash/session dialog
I normally have several Firefox profiles open, and when I log out without closing the Firefox windows I get the “session restore” dialog on my next login. This is because of Bug 336193 which says that Firefox should shut down gracefully when it receive…
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Snake in Python 3 + Qt 5
Series: Groovy, Ruby, BASIC, Dart, Elm, Python3+Qt5 I’m writing the game Snake in lots of programming languages, for fun, and to try out new languages. Python 3 broke compatibility to fix some mistakes – was it worth it? Qt 5 continues to offer more an…
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ACCU Conference 2016
In late April we exhibited at the ACCU Conference (#accuconf), which in many ways is our conference home. The first time we went was all the way back in 2007, and believe it or not we’ve not missed a single year since then. The conference is a great ev…
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ACCU Conference 2016
In late April we exhibited at the ACCU Conference (#accuconf), which in many ways is our conference home. The first time we went was all the way back in 2007, and believe it or not we’ve not missed a single year since then. The conference is a great ev…
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Writing; C Vu Magazine Columns (for January/March/May)
Spectacularly late, but I ought to keep the records up to date: My January 2016 C Vu magazine column was Bug Hunting (Part 2), concluding my series on finding and fixing software faults. My March 2016 column was Software Development Is…, an investi…
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Writing; C Vu Magazine Columns (for January/March/May)
Spectacularly late, but I ought to keep the records up to date: My January 2016 C Vu magazine column was Bug Hunting (Part 2), concluding my series on finding and fixing software faults. My March 2016 column was Software Development Is…, an investi…