Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Archive for May 2004
Nimf & Gtk 2.0
Today I decided to take the deep plunge into Gtk 2.0 so I could start to port Nimf to Gtk 2.0. I tried compiling it with 2.0 bindings instead of 1.2 and I didn’t really have to change all that much in order to get it to compile. Unfortunatelly I then found out that none […]
RSSMerger
A little while ago my coworker was visiting this site, and I quite liked the idea. I’ve always felt that there’s too much nonsense news around on the web, and scanning all news sources has become an increasingly difficult and tedious task. Fortunatelly there’s RSS, which allows you to view the headlines of all interesting […]
Pieterpost 0.10.9
A new version of Pieterpost has been released: version 0.10.9. This release fixes the last known bugs in Pieterpost. All that’s left is a feature request for a ‘forward’ and ‘reply-to-all’ feature. I’m not sure if I’m going to implement these features. I feel they are somewhat redundant in Pieterpost since it’s supposed to be […]
Programming Languages history poster
“For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O’Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.” Here’s the Full […]
Alternative debian sources
If you’re familiar with Debian GNU/Linux, you probably already knew about this internet page (apt-get.org). There you can find complete lists for alternative debian package sources. But did you also know about this one: http://www.backports.org/? “Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will […]
MTek K371 Power and Office keys under Linux
I’ve got this MTek K371L mini-ergonomical keyboard. It’s got 7 buttons on the top of the keyboard for automatic copy-pasting, opening files, etc. They simultate Control-O and those kind of keybindings. These are pretty Windows specific, so I always thought I couldn’t use them under Linux. On the top right of the keyboard are three […]
Ode to Sharky
For the fun of it, I wrote an Ode to Sharky. Sharky is my server who has been the trusty keeper of all my files, sourcecode, webpages, etc for the last six years. Sometimes people laugh at Sharky’s hardware because it’s old and outdated. But Sharky still managed to perform an enormous ammount of tasks […]
Inferno 4
Slashdot and OsNews both report that a new version of Inferno is Available for download. Inferno is meant to be the follow-up OS to Plan9 which, for it’s time, was pretty neat I think. Since Inferno is licensed under a Semi-free license and it runs in a virtual machine on Linux, I decided to give […]
The mess that is RSS
RSS, sometimes claimed to mean Really Simple Syndication and other times said to mean RDF Site Summary, is an XML format for listing new ‘items’ on, for instance, a website. Items can describe just about anything, from news items to new forum posts. I particulary like the meaning ‘Really Simple Syndication’. When you first look […]
Beauty, taste and good design
Paul Graham talks about how good programming design relates to beauty and therefor taste. In the article he compares many different fields like mathmatics, physics and art with program design. He talks about what they have in common and why some of it works and some of it doesn’t. Interesting ‘programming is art’ article.
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