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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for June 2007

Humor in Python

Most people know about this one: >>> from this import * “”” The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special […]

Blog back online

Well, the blog is back online. And it only took me a year and 5 months! I’m now running under WordPress. I’d be using MvBlog, but it’s not as mature as I need yet. WordPress offers lots of plugins such as Wiki-style editing and syntax color highlighting; two things I absolutely need. Converting all my […]

Challenge of the Month: June 2007: Coffee

During this Challenge of the Month: Don’t drink any coffee. I drink too much coffee. And I really mean too much. About twenty mugs a day during weekdays; five a day on the weekend. It’s an addiction, plain and simple. When I stop drinking coffee, I’ll get a headache for two days. Recent scientific research […]

Challenge of the Month

When it comes to computers, I’m what I call a ‘tweaker’ (no relations to tweakers.net, thank you very much). I spend a lot of time getting my computer setup, my directory structure, my documentation, my configuration, my everything just right. This can often take up a lot of my time, but I think I more […]

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