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This is brilliant! Sent in via the "Contact" form: Read more…

Hi. I dont think that this is an acceptable thing to do stealing my surname which is danns i tryed to get this website but was astonished to find that it had been stolen which is fraud. could you not have just used your own name paul dann. Thank you please get back to me soon.

Now that I come to use my git-attic script a little more (see previous post), I realise that the original work flow was a little clunky: Read more…

So maybe you've spent an afternoon writing a small utility in Qt, or maybe you're finally ready to have your friends beta-test your latest kick-arse mega-app. The problem now comes — how do you package it for them? If your friends are Linux users, they'll probably be happy building it from source, so the only potential problem they face is the lengthy download and compilation of the Qt source code (if it's not already installed). If your friends are Windows users, you'll probably use NSIS, and all you need to do is throw in the Qt DLLs and maybe mingw10.dll (if you compiled with MinGW). On the Mac however, you face a more difficult problem. Read more…

I realised something about myself today: I really hate being told what to do. I tend to have very strong opinions concerning the way things should be, which I think stems from being an ardent pedant, and I will fight tooth and nail to have things my way. This obviously puts me at odds with my superiors. Read more…

Sometimes when using Git you find yourself with several branches that contain old code or code that has been shelved for the time being. You don't want to just throw it away, but it's really in the way in with your active branches. Read more…

It's now possible to create your own account for Danns.co.uk, which will allow you to be notified when I post new content. Just click "Log In" on the left-hand menu, then click "Create new Account" at the top of the page. Once you're created your account and logged in, click on "My notification settings" at the top of your account page, and tweak as you see fit.

Update: Of course you can always subscribe to the site's RSS feeds, which will allow you to be more selective in the notifications you receive.

Continuing the story of the broken car door: we have been wondering whether it might have just been the wind that caused the window to smash, maybe in combination with a twig or something. There were strong winds around that time, and a few months back the windscreen smashed for no apparent reason when I was driving on the motorway. My poor car is getting old. Read more…

The above verse reads: "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." (ESV) Well, I wish that meant that nothing ever goes wrong for Christians, but unfortunately it's not that simple :) A couple of things have gone wrong so far today. Read more…

So I'm in Chicago at the moment. For those that aren't aware, I live in Birmingham, in the West Midlands of the UK, so Chicago is a pretty big leap for me. It's my first time in the USA. To be honest, I've always felt a resistance to visiting the US. Everyone goes to the US. Especially anyone that has anything to do with Computers. I'd like to see Canada though, especially Quebec, as I speak French, and I've always wanted to visit Australia. In fact, we have plans to possibly move to Australia in a few years. Read more…

For those of you that haven't heard of it before, Big Buck Bunny is the second animated short made in Blender under Creative Commons. It's furry and funny, and you have to watch it (or else):

(I assume this download button is under CC as well? Let's hope so!)