In the last weeks I worked on the upgrade of the content management system that runs this home page. The new system has been set online today. The most important changes include a new software and a new logo. Like always there are things that I'd like to improve. However, these are not on the highest position of my list.

For some time I was looking for a solution to a strange problem:

My Laptop has an encrypted partition which contains two logical volumes: root and swap. According to the well-known practice I added the parameter resume=/path/to/swap to /etc/default/grub. Suspend worked, but the system did not resume. Even dmesg did not give any useful information. Actully it did not report that it tried to resume from somewhere. Some time passed reading lots of websites about setting up LVM on LUKS using kernel parameters without notable success.

Today I started to add extsting git projects into my home git repository as submodules. In short: git submdule add -f ... solves the problem…

Recently I got a Korg M1. When you have a synthesizer like that you want to have a good librarian that helps you organizing your sounds, have a big sound library and so on. A quick research brought nothing helpful. So I decieded to give Ctrlr a try. The downloaded Linux version did not work as I have newer binutils installed and libbfd has no stable ABI.

wxWidgets provides a global colour database (wxTheColourDatabase). Unfortunately the documentation doesn't show the colors for an easy selection. The following code extracts the definitions from wx/common/gdicmn.cpp and converts them into HTML:

sed -e 's;^\s*{wxT("\([^"]*\)"),\([^\}]*\)\},?;<span style="color: rgb(\2)">\1</span><br />;' gdicmn.cpp |grep '<span' > colors.html


Recently, I started to fix some issues in the Bibsonomy JabRef plugin. As debugging is not possible if you don't get any information about what's going on, I tried to enable logging. According to the Bibsonomy website the plugin uses Log4J for logging. But I was unable to change the console output of JabRef. I simply didn't accept my log4j.properties.

Recently, I have been asked to try to get OpenMusic running on Linux. So far, IRCAM provides only versions for Windows and Mac OS X. Ok. OpenMusic is GPL licensed and the source code is availlable from their download page. I downloaded it, ignoring the sufficiently large list of dependencies – I can return to this topic later.

LispWorks

Well, today I've solved some problems using wxWidgets for Mutabor.

The first one was, that my focus changes are not shown on Microsoft Windows. The reason is simple: Microsoft Windows does not allow to change the border of a window. Even if it is a child of another one! So, I changed the corresponding drawing routines to draw a border on wxMSW when the corresponding shape is focused.