Author Archives: Marian Schedenig

Default Window Sizes in JFace

The problem with pixels Default window sizes are a tricky issue. For a long time, developers liked to assume that all people had similar resolutions and screen sizes and simply hardcoded fixed pixel dimensions for all their dialogs. Some of … Continue reading

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Internationalised front page in Drupal

Note: The following applies specifically to Drupal 7. There are plenty of howtos on this subject to be found on Google, but many of them refer to older Drupal versions, and few are clear on what to do if you’re … Continue reading

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Stamping images with imagemagick

One of the reasons for starting a blog was to be able to write down stuff for future reference. Even if there’s a better guide elsewhere on the web, at least I’ll have a place where I know I can … Continue reading

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Mapping KDE actions to extra mouse buttons

Note: The following is written for Ubuntu 12.04 and KDE 4. Other distributions will behave similarly, and the described solution can be used for software other than KDE as well, but the specific details may differ in those cases. For … Continue reading

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Blog! Blog!

I have a blog here! See? Nobody cares. And why should anyone – there’s nothing in it yet, and it’s not like my old website had been well maintained and eagerly observed by followers. Anyway, after years of brooding about … Continue reading

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