Archive for May, 2009

Banshee-1 and memory

Today I had to check how much memory Banshee is eating when it’s in use. As I write this the program is syncing my iPod and Top gives me these values: 5264 XXXXX 20 0 130m 64m 10m S 162 4.3 12:53.18 banshee-1 And of course the system is getting slow. Mono-related? I am wondering [...]

Spending loads of $$$ does not mean you get a great software

So at the moment I am working as a web/it-developer at a company here in Norway. Today I had to fix a bug that had to do with rendering the website on Safari (both mac and Windows) which means that it does not support WebKit / KHTML. So it was a crucial bug to fix. [...]

Form design – tables, labels or lists

This post is all about the design of forms and if you are to use tables, labels or lists (last combined with labels). Let me first start with the table. There are many people out there who now reads this post and starts screaming: Tables shall not be used for website layout. This is true, [...]

Is Linux Desktop Dying?

Linux on a server works great. We all know that. You can update and you can remove programs without telling all the users that “We have to reboot the server, so please take a 30 minutes break”. I have choosen to use Linux as my OS on the Desktop as well. The reason is because [...]