Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Cognitive overload
I’m a fairly easily distracted person. My schoolcards always had comments on them along the lines of “Good student but easily distracted”, “Sometimes a bit too much of a daydreamer” and “Needs to work on his short attention span”. I’ve always known this, and kind of assumed it was just my personality. But when I […]
Donate for Azie
I’m normally not much for donating money to charities, because usually those charities are only aiding in the further destruction of the human race by trying to cheat on mother nature. But I’m making an exception for the victims of the earthquake in Azie. All you dutch people, please consider donating to Giro 555.
Imitating google’s ‘Suggest’
A lot of sites (PHP.net amongst others) are imitating google’s ‘Suggest’ feature (See this post). No doubt google will receive all the credit for this invention, even though plenty of other people already implemented similar features elsewhere. That, however, is not my gripe with this technology.. The problem is that this ‘feature’ FUBAR’s my browsers […]
No EU software patents for now
GrokLaw announces, in this article the following: “In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today’s meeting. […] Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a “constructive declaration”. The meeting chairman accomodated […]
Chello Upgrades speeds
Chello has upgraded the speeds for my internet connection. I’m now on 4096Kbit down/1024Kbit up, which is equivelant to 512kb down/128kb up. Sweet. Here’s a little proof: I just downloaded the OpenOffice.org 2.0 preview release (94 Mb) in 4 minutes.
Macintosh anecdotes
On Folklore.org, you can read all about the people at Apple and the development of the Macintosh. Very entertaining, in-depth and educational stuff. (Sorry flux)
GTK 2.6 released
They just released GTK 2.6. It’s got a lot of new features that I’ve been wanting: GtkCellRenderers for dropdowns and progressbars (these can be used in a list.. nice for ListPatron) The combo box can now display trees, insensitive rows and separators. Path entry in the file chooser widget (no more need for using ctrl-l […]
Technological advancements
Sometimes it takes a little while to realise something is actually really stupid. Take this for example: “Chalk one up for teachers. What better way to present educational materials than with a template that evokes the classic image of the teaching profession?” It’s an KeyNote theme. KeyNote is a tool for creating presentations for the […]
Still working on ListPatron
I’m still working on ListPatron. Here’s a little in-between screenshot which shows the sorting rules. What’s still left to do before releasing version 0.1?: Finish the sorting Sort rule loading/saving (70% done) Dialog polishing (80% done) Code cleanup (80%) Sort list on header click Some memory-leak fixing Bug fixing Testing Package building That’s aboutit.
XMLHttpRequest
I’ve heard about XMLHttpRequest before, but never really gave it much attention. Which means I didn’t even know what it was supposed to do, and therefor never looked into it further. Turns out it’s pretty neat though. If you’re a webdeveloper, you must know how we deal with stuff like changing the values in a […]
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