Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Natural order sorting
It’s sometimes humbling to learn new things about programming which are actually really basic stuff. Things that should have been obvious but which you never really thought off. Take for instance the subject of sorting. Sorting is done via an algorithm which compares strings (a collection of characters). There are different types of comparisons from […]
Your new Open Source project
Nice article on Newsforge How to plan your new open source project Lots of startup projects on the big online free software repositories have been abandoned right after being created, or linger in alpha stage for many years. I have founded four open source projects, of which two have been successful, while the other two […]
Finally something done on dutch press propaganda
I couldn’t find any websites carrying the news item, but I just heard it on the radio. Something is finally being done about propaganda in the dutch press. For months now, I’ve been hearing news items in which some criminals race/ethnic background was mentioned which had absolutely nothing to do with the news report in […]
Becoming a Debian developer
NewForge has a nice article on becoming a Debian developer. The article gives nice insights into the process of becoming a Debian developer. It’s not as easy as it seems. I know some people that know some people that are Debian developers, and I’ve heard about the keysiging thing before. For some reason, I always […]
Censorship
I keep finding more and more insightful or otherwise interesting articles on useless-knowledge. For instance, an article on press censorship. A small quote from the article: Now, I do recall a certain FIRST AMENDMENT in the Constitution that prohibits censorship. Furthermore, there is a reason that we have free press. It is to keep us […]
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