Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Archive for September 2005
On vacation
I’ll be on vacation from today until the 15th of October (I think) and won’t be reading my e-mail nor will I be performing any other means of communicating. Catch you all later.
PHPBar: The PHP reference in a sidebar
PHPbar is a pretty nice sidebar for your browser which contains a quick reference for PHP.
The big ‘spring’ cleaning
I’ve been busy lately. I’ve been very busy. I’ve been busy at my job, I’ve been busy with my own projects and I’ve been busy sorting out some things in my personal life. As such, some things that should, aren’t being taken care of: PROMS has been suffering from a bug which prohibits the sending […]
Productivity tip of the day: A Not-To-Do List
Via GeekPress Today is the day you start your project. Wake up. Make your coffee. Sit down. Get to work. Now, it should be that simple. Wake up and get to work. But there are many distractions. Mental and otherwise. So this is NOT a to-do list. This is a not-to-do list. You don’t need […]
Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
I recently started the CodeByExample project, which focusses on me putting online all my small code examples for various languages. The main idea here is to create a large repository of small, atomic, code examples for everyday things. For instance, there’s a little code snippet on how to daemonize (detach from the console and keep […]
Terror alert level to remain high in Holland
We’re next! My prediction: When the shit hits the proverbial fan, the cabinet will get blamed because they support the U.S. in the war on terror/Iraq against the wishes of the dutch public.
Yarrrr!
Laddies! It be talk-like-a-pirate-day today! Arrrr! Shiver me timbers.
Stuuupid release names
What’s with all the stupid release names of FOSS projects? Columba 1.0 “Holy Moly“. Firefox 1.5 “Deerpark” I mean, just the trend of nicknaming releases is annoying, but the idiotic names make it even worse.
DataQ v0.3
DataQ release v0.3. Changes in this release include: Queues can now be spooled to persistant storage device upon certain events (queue writes, server shutdown). Server now logs its PID in a PID file. Rewrite of configuration parser. Various small bugfixes in server. Various code cleanups in server. Bugfix in test case 4.
Efficiency
I am, at times, surprised by people’s inability or unwillingness to find more efficient ways of performing tedious tasks. Sys admins: Learn to use the unix toolset (sed, grep, etc) Windows admins: install cygwin so you can use the unix toolset on windows. Windows software engineers: Get yourself a decent editor. Documentation writers: Get Docbook, […]
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