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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for February 2009

Apache, FastCGI and Python

FastCGI is a hybrid solution to serving web applications written in a wide variety of programming languages. It sits somewhere between CGI, which spawns a new instance of the web application for each request, and the various web server modules (such as mod_php, mod_python and mod_wsgi) which take care of pre-spawning a pool of interpreters […]

Re: Unit testing is not (generally) useful

There is a post up on Bill Moorier’s blog about the usefulness of Unit Testing. In it, he writes the following, which largely sums up his post: The metric I, and others I know, have used to judge unit testing is: does it find bugs? The answer has been no. For the majority of the […]

Gimp Animation frame speed

The Gimp can do animations by simply using stacked layers as animations. You can preview the animation in the Filters → Animation → Playback. It’s rather to figure out how to change the time each frame is displayed though. It turns out you have to change the layer name in order to change the time […]

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