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Thoughts on the software development process

Posted on 20th March 2019 by adam

I’m going to talk about some reading material and my own ideas on the software development process: Hackers and Painters essay by Paul Graham Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda Facebook mobile development article by Android Authority My own thoughts “Hackers … Continue reading →

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xdiffr initial release

Posted on 5th September 2013 by adam

I have rewritten my differencing application to be cross platform. I have rebranded it to xdiffr and I have made it open source. You can download built Windows and Linux executables here: https://adamk.org/xdiffr The source code is hosted on github: … Continue reading →

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Freezing hard drive as last resort data recovery

Posted on 22nd June 2011 by adam

In the last few years I’ve had two hard drives fail. As a last resort each time I put the drive in a freezer for about half a day and then managed to recover most of the data. WARNING: If … Continue reading →

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Docbook introduction

Posted on 26th April 2011 by adam

Docbook is a specification for writing documentation in XML*. Once an XML document containing the data content of the documentation has been created, it can be processed by XSL transforms to produce an output format (pdf, html, chm and more…). … Continue reading →

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