Ferry Boender
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Programming playground
I’ve added a new section called Playground to the Projects page. It’s where I’ll be stashing all experiments I do for various things like CSS, PHP, DHTML, Javascript, Soap, XMLHttpRequest stuff, etc.
Sylpheed-claws killfile
I read a couple of newsgroups using Sylpheed-claws, but sometimes there are annoying trolls that irritate me to no end. I’ve often spent a couple of minutes finding out if sylpheed had a killfile. A killfile is file with a bunch of (regular expression) rules that are applied to messages in newsgroups. You can use […]
How to kill linux.
How to Kill Linux. My god, this Dvorak guy is dumb!. While you’re at it, check out his article on Microsoft’s marketing: The word on Microsoft is that it’s a copycat with great marketing. The company, however, likes to toss around the term “innovation” and rarely brags about its marketing. And nobody accepts the company’s […]
Proms v0.11 enters testing stage
Proms v0.11 has entered the testing stage. In the next week I will be testing all new features and doing some serious bug hunting (and fixing). After that the new version will be released. About time too. The last version was released over a year ago.
Bug priorities
Suppose there are two bugs in an application you’re writing: One is a bug that is in everybody’s face. All of the testers have noticed it, and it has already been reported numerous times. The real end-users are bound to find it. However, it is a trivial bug and the behaviour it causes is easily […]
World Press Photo 1957
World Press Photo 1957: Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. Probably one of the most courageous persons in the world.
Nethack farming bot
Benjamin Schieder wrote a bot that automates the process of farming in Nethack: Or, to be even more precise, it does the job of pudding farming for you. It even feeds itself when hungry. It sacrifices pudding corpses and prays to your god. It removes scrolls of scare monster from the altar. It stops on […]
‘You Have No Right To Complain’
Today’s Dilbert cartoon made me relive all those moments during the last elections here in the Netherlands. It’s actually becoming the standard way people react when I say I don’t vote: “But vorting is important! You’ve been given the right, the privilige to vote, and you should use it. And if you don’t vote, you […]
New default style
As you can see (If you’ve been here before), I’ve changed the default style. Hope you like it.
Failures count more than Successes
Failures count more than Successes. A nice article on the understated importance of correctly handling software failures.
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