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Today, I can finally announce that ThunderBirthDay 0.3.3 is compatible with Thunderbird 3.1 and Lightning 1.0b2! This means that it works again with the newest version of these applications.

No changes where needed, only the compatibility infomation has been adapted (for more about compatibility updates, see here). Theses infomration are retrieved by Thunderbird when it checks for updates.

Today, I released ThunderBirthDay 0.3.3! It is already the third version compatible with the upcoming Thunderbird 3, but it is uncompatible with prior versions of Thunderbird. Therefore, the new versions are retained in the sandbox until now. It works already greatly, you can download it and try it out!

I just spent a couple of hours to find a way to "protect" commas in C/C++ preprocessor parameters. Consider the following example:

#define ID(x) x
//...
printf("%s %s!\n", ID("hello", "world"));

This will not work. My compiler will say:

c:\test.cpp(7) : warning C4002: too many actual parameters for macro 'ID'

The problem is that the comma between "hello" and "world" is interpreted as argument seperator of the ID macro (which makes the two being two arguments), although we want it to be part of one single argument. There's no way known to me to protect the comma (like protecting quotes with a backslash in C). Still, there's a workaround.

I'm using disposable email addresses since a long time. As a consequence, almost don't get spam. Today, I discovered a new trash mail provider, which I want to present along with the ones I knew before. Many people I know still don't have a clue what a disposable email address is. Maybe this post will change that a bit!

A common solution to host a SVN repository for small projects is to tunnel SVN via SSH. In this scenario, the repository resides on a server hosted by a specific user (repository owner). He will let other users connect to his account, identified by their SSH identities, but limit their acces to the utilisation of the svnserver command with specific parameters including the repository location. One SSH identity is therefore bound to a specific directory. This means, that a user has to have several identity files. Until recently, I didn't know how to set this up. Here's how.

With the release of Lightning 0.9 RC1, the final release of the new Lightning version is approaching, so it's time to release a new version of ThunderBirthDay as well! Other changes than the compatibility with Lightning 0.9 are the neat logo from icondrawer.com and a link to this site.

You can already download the new version from the sandbox, if you're registered on AMO. It'll probably by reviewed soon and appear on the public page as well.

Natürlich gibt es diesen Sommer wieder ein Unifest, das wir uns nicht entgehen lassen sollten! Los geht's draußen um 17:00 Uhr mit mir unbekannten Bands, aber letztes Jahr haben sich die meisten als gut hörbar herausgestellt :-)

Bald ist es wieder soweit: das Fest ist wieder da! Laut Wikipedia ist das mit 300'000 Besuchern die größte kostenlose Open-Air-Veranstaltung Deutschlands. Auf jeden Fall beenden wir damit traditionell unsere Vorlesungszeit, was vor allem letztes Jahr u.a. mit Sunrise Avenue, Beatsteaks und Fanta Vier sehr toll war. Leider kannte ich die meisten Bands nicht wirklich, weshalb ich mir dieses Jahr das Line-Up vorher schonmal angeschaut habe und bei last.fm reingehört habe.

Nachdem ich nun zum wiederholten Male auch von offiziellen Stellen Emails erhalten habe, wo unverschämterweise meine Emailadresse im CC-Feld an zig mir unbekannte Empfänger gesendet wird, habe ich beschlossen, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen. Ich bin zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass kein Weg daran vorbeiführt, die Leute sofort und notfalls wiederholt auf ihr Verhalten aufmerksam zu machen. Da ich nicht jedem seine persönliche Moralpredigt halten will, habe ich mich auf die Suche nach Webseiten gemacht, die die Arbeit für mich erledigen.