Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Playground: Online Webbased TicTacToe
Here’s a little TicTacToe game which can be played online in your browser against an reallife opponent. Everything is interactive, no need to refresh anything. It uses XMLHttpRequest to do Client 2 Server 2 Client communications.
WebGUI toolkit: A (small) proof-of-concept
Felt a little better today (I’ve got the flu), so I decided to do some hacking. I had this idea for a while about building a WebGUI toolkit with Widgets and all that stuff. So I made a little Proof-of-Concept. More (just barely) information can be found in the Playground. Imagine what you could do […]
A critical bug in Free Software gets fixed
Ever wanted to know the life of a critical bug in a Free Software application? Some days ago a bug was discovered in FireFox’s (or rather the complete Mozilla Suite) GIF handling code. Life line: 2005-03-10 07:56 PST: The bug was reported 2005-03-10 12:52 PST: (5 hours later) The bug is confirmed. 2005-03-10 18:36 PST: […]
Finally sick!
I’m finally sick! Hooray! “Why, that’s nothing to be happy about, is it?” you might say. But do know that I’ve been on the verge of being sick for over a month now. Too bad that at that time we were running up against a dead-line, and I couldn’t be sick. Well, I could have, […]
Ion2 window manager
Recently, I’ve been giving the Ion2 window manager a try. Ion2 is a window manager with a twist. Window managers like it are sometimes refered to as tiling window managers. Instead of the normal ‘floating’ windows, Ion2 tries to give each window as much screen space as possible. Normally, this would mean all windows are […]
Beware of the duck
I liked today’s comic on Pearls before Swine so much, I decided to post it here:
Proms v0.11 …
Proms v0.11 is progressing nicely. Some time ago I started the testing phase, but since then have added enough new features to merrit a restart of that testing phase. Included in the new release will be a lot of bugfixes, security fixes, addition of files and a new and improved interface. For a sample of […]
In the beginning was the command line…
Neal Stephenson, of Cryptonomicon fame, once wrote an article called ‘In the beginning was the command line‘. It’s pretty old, and some of it is very much out of date. It’s still a good read though and he brings up many good points. One of the best points on Apple and Microsoft he makes is […]
Regular Expression Library
Welcome to RegExLib.com, the Internet’s first Regular Expression Library. Currently we have indexed 909 expressions from contributors around the world.
Why FOSS won’t win against MS
Now here’s a real insightful comment on one of the things that’s wrong with FOSS (Free Open Source Software).
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