Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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XML commandline toolset
Those who are familiar with Unix commandline tools like grep, sed and cut will know about the enormous power they provide. They make it a breeze to mangle, transform and retrieve information in and from text files. Unfortunately, they’re mostly dependant on row and column based information. That is, they expect each line in a […]
Enhanced Interactive Python with IPython
Through this article on Newsforge, I found out about IPython, an enhanced interactive Python shell. It sure works more comfortable than the default interactive Python interpretor. ONLamp.com has a somewhat more indepth article on IPython.
Defacto music standard
Some people don’t seem to get the fact that the defacto standard format for music is MP3. Stop putting crap like WMA, MP4 and OGG/Vorbis in torrents please. Oh, and also stop putting Zip files in a RAR file in a torrent. It’s already compressed enough as it is and nobody cares about saving two […]
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