Linux

Nested Variadic Functions in C

You may be familiar with variadic functions in C, these are basically functions that allow a variable number of parameters,…

5 years ago

Rendering Emoji in Linux Terminals

Following on from my post about getting TUIs in CentOS 7 to use Unicode I thought I should write a…

5 years ago

Unicode 7 in CentOS 7 TUI Code

I'm in the middle of developing a project in C which uses NCurses and Unicode 7+ characters. This has been…

5 years ago

Fixing an OpenSSL issue with Curl and Autotools

One project I created at MariaDB is libMariaS3 [source, documentation]. It is a lightweight simple LGPL licensed API to access…

5 years ago

Solving my Intel GPU performance issues

For the last few days I had my laptop connected to an external monitor which has a 2560x1600 resolution. Whilst…

6 years ago

KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu

After my previous post on testing KDE Plasma on KDE Neon my friend and colleague Max commented with "Any thoughts…

6 years ago

Another week with KDE Plasma

At the beginning of the year I gave KDE Plasma a try as the primary desktop on one of my…

6 years ago

MariaDB source visualisation with Gource

Gource is a tool which can take a source code tree and create beautiful visualisations out of it. I've used…

7 years ago

One week with KDE Plasma

My go-to Linux distribution when I'm setting up my workstations is Fedora. I have been using it since Fedora Core…

7 years ago

Coding and decoding crash dump handlers

All software has bugs. Even if you could possibly write the perfect bug free software all the layers down have…

7 years ago