Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Vacation
From tomorrow (Aug 26) until Sept 7th, I’ll be on vacation. We (Wouter and me) will be traveling around Europe for 10 days by car. We have no idea where we’re going. No initial direction planned, no accomodations planned, nothing. We’ll just have to see where we end up. So, until I return I will […]
XML i18n
Uche Ogbuji (remember that name. If you ever run into anything having to do with XML you’ll see his name popping up everywhere) writes on his O’Reilly developers weblog: “I think the most pervasive problem in XML adoption is ingorance and even wilful sabotage of the international foundation on which XML is built. In several […]
CVS v.s. Subversion
Just the other day I realised something: CVS Sucks. I mean, you can’t even move a file around in the repository! How dumb is that? It also has all kinds of problems with empty directories and other file problems in general. So I decided to do some research into Subversion. And it just so happens […]
Listpatron sneak-preview
It might appear that I haven’t been working on any projects for a while, but looks are deceiving. A little while ago I announced that I would be diving into GTK 2.0 in preperation of the porting of Nimf to GTK 2. I started with creating some simple lists and, before I knew it, I […]
Nethack Sokoban levelset
I’ve created a levelset of sokoban levels for XSok, the sokoban game for Linux. The levels are a copy of the Sokoban levels in Nethack. I use them to practice a level before playing it live in Nethack. (If you make a single mistake in the Nethack Sokoban levels there’s a chance you can’t finish […]
Gnome Application repository
Finally, there’s a gnome application repository: http://www.gnomefiles.org
Laws of developers documentation
During my programming years, I’ve noticed that Developers documentation adhears to a couple of laws: If you write documentation, they don’t read it. If you don’t write documentation, they complain about it. If you update documentation regularly, they don’t. If you don’t update documentation, they complain about it. If you read other people’s documentation and […]
I, Robot
I saw a trailer for the movie I, Robot and was disgusted. The movie’s supposed to be based on a book by Isaac Asimov. Asimov was one of the best science fiction witers of our time and it was he who conjured up the Three laws of robotics. These three laws were used in his […]
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