Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Archive for June 2005
Java is weird
You know.. a language that has two different, non-interchangable, types for integers is a language I’ll never trust to do anything right. Especially when I try to compare two numeric values (an int and Integer) with eachother and it starts spouting errors like this: *** Semantic Error: The type of this expression, “java.lang.Integer”, is not […]
Server upgrade & notices
Mail and websites are working correctly again. Some people that have a mail account on this machine might notice that spam/virusses are being sent to their accounts. These claim to come fron e-mail addresses like info@electricmonk.nl and support@electricmonk.nl. This is, of course, not true. Please ignore/delete any mail claiming to be from the maintainers of […]
Server upgrade
This server is currently being upgraded to the newest version of Debian GNU/Linux. Since this server isn’t overly important and I’m lazy, I haven’t take the time to create a staging environment to prepare the roll-out of the upgrade. Therefor, certain services may not be available until I get around to modifying the configuration. Most […]
Smoke looks cool
Smoke looks cool. Via J-walk blog
Hyperion Cantos
It’s time to make it official: The Hyperion Cantos are my favorite series of books ever. I just finished the last part, Rise Of Endymion, which was absolutely brilliant. Just like the others: Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion Rise of Endymion Here’s the current list of my favorite books (or series of books, if […]
Ten minutes with Windows
For the last couple of years I’ve worked almost exclusively with the Debian GNU/Linux Operating System. The last version of the dreaded Windows Operating System I really used was Windows 98. I’d heard some good things about Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and have even installed Windows 2000 for a while on my desktop machine […]
Technisch College Ede
(Sorry, dutch) Injeholland.nl moet naam wijzigen. DEN HAAG – De maker van protestsite Injeholland.nl moet de domeinnaam inleveren en hij mag de naam Injeholland niet meer gebruiken. Gebruik van de naam schaadt de reputatie van Hogeschool Inholland en vormt een inbreuk op het merkrecht, oordeelde de voorzieningenrechtbank in Den Haag dinsdag in een kort geding […]
Talkers and Doers
A while ago, I wrote a little piece on two types of programmers. The practical programmer and the acadamic programmer. This article describes it better, eventhough it’s much more focused on the shipping end-product. Some excerpts: One day I went to a brown bag lunch, and a lead architect proudly proclaimed that he had used […]
No inspiration
I’ve been completely void of inspiration lately. I haven’t hacked up any cool projects in weeks; no new articles written; e-mail requiring replies lying in my Inbox for weeks now. All I’ve done in the last couple of days is reading, reading and reading. Almost finished the Hyperion Cantos. But no programming whatsoever. No nethack. […]
New screenshots for Proms and RSSMerger
I added some new screenshots to the PROMS and RSSMerger projects.
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