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Development / KDE / Linux
I’m working on different Open Source projects and most of them have different coding style guidelines. Mostly spaces or tabs or different tabwidth. The easiest thing would be to store these information in the git config of the project. So here is a easy and secure way to have modelines in the git config. So first I set the modelines (here for the Samba project):...
Development / KDE / Linux
I’m a big fan of unit testing frameworks. When I developed csync, a bidirectional file synchronizer, I used check to write unit tests from the start. check was ok, but it were running valgrind on your testcases to find memleaks in your code the mode reports were about check. So I needed to add valgrind suppressions to get rid of them. When I started to...
Development / Linux / Samba
I recently fixed a bug resolving Domain Local groups in Winbind. I was asked how to reproduce it with a more complex setup, so I had to dig through the Winbind code to understand everything in more detail. I have documented my findings here, in order to retain what I’ve learned and to help others understand how Winbind works. The Setup We have a forest...
Android / Development / Linux
I’ve got a new gadget, a nice and small Android based smartphone, the HTC Wildfire S (WFS). The week before I got it alquez finished porting CyanogenMod 7 to the wfs. I’ve installed it and started to use it. After some time I was curios how to build the system. I’ve asked alquez how to set it up and I built it from source. Then...
Development / KDE / Linux / Samba
Three years ago Michael Adam created a nice library to easily read the Samba configuration or modify it if it is stored in the registry. Since we have a new build system it is much easier to create shared libraries, I’ve created a public smbconf library now. The library can be used to setup Samba or Winbind without touching any files. Ok, smb.conf needs one...
Maybe you’ve heard already of the privacy aware, personally controlled, open source social network Diaspora. I’ve wanted to try Diaspora so I’ve setup my own seed of Diaspora, they are called pods. I don’t wanted to run Diaspora with thin so I decided to go with mod_passenger on apache2. I will describe what you need to do to set it up and get it running...
At the end of last year I’ve worked on Dogtag PKI, which is enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority. The project is written in serveral different laguages (C, C++ and Java), so I’ve used CMake as the new build system. I know CMake very well and use it since a long time. To be able to build the java project I needed Java support in CMake....