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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for April 2005

xo.inborn.net RSS feed

Because my friend Zetion is too lazy to create a RSS feed for his web log, I’ve made one for him. Lazy bastard! ;-) Update: Yes! My strong-arm tactics have succeeded in forcing Zetion to create a RSS feed! Finally! I’m so happy, I think I’m gonna cry. Thanks, Zetion.

rssmerger v0.3 released

I’ve just released rssmerger v0.3. This release fixes a bug where a RSS feed with multiple root nodes (for instance, a xml and xml-stylesheet) wasn’t handled correctly.

Tridge posts Open BitKeeper compatible tool

Andrew Tridgell (of Samba fame), the guy who allegedly was the cause of the retraction of the BitKeeper license for the Linux kernel, has posted his creation named SourcePuller to freshmeat. From the README: SourcePuller (also known as ‘sp’) is a free client for talking to BitKeeper(tm) source code management servers. It is written to […]

Yet More Firefox Extensions

Every now and then I take a little time to check out Mozilla Firefox extensions to see if anything new has popped up. This time I found some extensions that I hadn’t noticed before but which are highly recommended by me from now on. Document map Document Map displays the current HTML page’s structure (headings, […]

First testing of GPL in court?

In my RSS reader, I just noticed a story about an injunction against Fortinet for GPL violations. (Original press release) The preliminary injunction on holding sales by Fortinet was filed by gpl-violations.org and granted by the Munich district court: The gpl-violations.org project has uncovered violations by Fortinet UK Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Fortinet Inc., […]

Alarm.sh: A simple alert tool

A guy phoned me up last monday and said, “Don’t forget about our appointment tonight at 20:00!”. “I won’t”, I told him, put the horn down and thought to myself “I will forget about this. Better quickly whip up a script to remind me tonight”. So I did. That evening I was working on the […]

Am I a perfectionist?

I suspect I might be a perfectionist. Everytime I get near completing a script, project, whatever, I tend to find something that can in some way be improved. And before I know it, I find myself actually improving it. It’s not even that I notice myself finding something that can be improved. Otherwise I’d just […]

Two types of programmers

The way I see it, there are two types of programmers*: The practical programmer, and The academic programmer The practical programmer The practical programmer knows his stuff. He is experienced and knows what will and won’t work. He’s been through the same training as every other software engineer and has learned the same things. When […]

First day without a headache

Today marks the first day in three weeks that I haven’t had a headache. The day isn’t over yet, but at least it feels like there’s not gonna be a headache. I’m not sure why I’ve been having consecutive headaches for over three weeks. It may have something to do with the weather. We’ve been […]

Keeping package management in mind

If you write and release Free Software, it may be a good idea to keep some things in mind. Just to, you know, make life a little easier on the package maintainers.

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