Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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o:XML; a XML based programming language
This looks pretty inconvenient: Programming with o:XML. It’s an XML based programming language. Pretty useless, if you ask me.
PHP 5
PHP 5 has been released. New features: * The Zend Engine II with a new object model and dozens of new features. * XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). * A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as […]
Nethack notes
I’ve been playing a lot of Nethack lately. It’s quite addictive. And you tend to die a lot. For instance: In my last game I arrived at the Medusa level. Now, Medusa will turn you to stone if you look at here directly, so I was going blindfolded. I read somewhere that you can use […]
Sun’s Looking Glass
Sun’s Looking Glass looks pretty awesome. (Click the screenhots and the select different ‘views’ from the dropdown)
PHP
Now that I’ve taken the job at ZXFactory, I’ll be doing some heavy-duty PHP programming again. It’s been a while since I last programmed in PHP. (Not that I’ve forgotten how to do so). I did a little research for some functional specifications I am working on at ZX and found some interesting sites and […]
Windows Vim settings
Geez, the default settings for the windows version of vim suck! It’s got all these crooked little ‘shift-arrowkeys for selecting text’ options and whatnot. I don’t want that crap! Autoindenting was completely fubar too. So much so that I couldn’t even normally insert text without each line violently shaking the left and right. So I […]
NL withdraws software patents vote
“The Dutch Parliament has decided to direct Minister Brinkhorst and Secretary of State van Gennip (Economic Affairs) to withdraw the Dutch vote in support of the Council of Ministers’ text for the Directive on Software Patents. This is the first time in the history of the EU that such a course of action has been […]
Windows GVim FTP
I’ve spent an eternity trying to find out how to get gvim under Windows to open files transparantely over FTP. According to the manual, it’s supposed to work like this: :e ftp://[user]@[hostname]/file But that didn’t work for me. I thought I tried everything, but it just wouldn’t work. Some red-coloured errors flashed by everytime I […]
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