Friday, February 13th, 2004
An article on OSDN DevChannel describes various Rapid Application Developement tols for Linux. It’s in three parts: Part 1 (Database Frontends), Part 2 (Visual Linux Basics) and Part 3 (More RAD tools). It doesn’t feature all there is about RAD for LInux. I know this because I once conducted a fairly in-depth research into them and found a whole lot more than described here. I’m also not really satisfied with the type of programs listed here, since most of them aren’t even RAD. Still, there are a couple of nice progams linked here which you might want to check out.
Sunday, February 8th, 2004
There’s an interesting article at the Linux Gazette about writing efficient C programs. It’s mostly just general tips about programming, not really technological in-depth. Still makes a good read though.
Sunday, February 8th, 2004
Late monday I started my last internship at East Site. We (Ralph and me) will be working on a research project covering new meta-data content-types for their Content Management System Coherence. I can’t reveal too much here, since we haven’t signed any secrecy documents yet, but it seams to be very promising. East Site, for as far as I can tell from working there one week, is an extremely relaxt company to work for. The people are great (as long as you’ve got juggling-skillz yo) and are extremely knowledgable. I think I’ll enjoy working there for the next half year.
In the meantime I’m having a hard time adjusting to the work schedule. Not that East Site doesn’t maintain flexible working hours, but it’s just that I have to travel from far and that’s severely cutting into my sleeping time. Not to mention my hacking. Still, I’ve managed to get some work done on Proms. It’s finally register_globals=off compatible, and I’ve been rewriting some of the sorting mechanisms. Bugfixes are plentiful too. Release will be here soon.
Friday, January 30th, 2004
I’ve put my list of Books online.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
So, I’ve read there’s another virus on the loose. *g* When will this end? I’ll tell you: never. At least, not until these virusses do some radical damage. They aren’t destructive enough against the right targets. Right now, these virusses do create a lot of problems and damage to infrastructures and companies. The problem is, home users don’t give a shit. There are lots of sites out there which educate the people on how to avoid such virusses, but do they read them? Do they learn from previous virusses? Hell no. Why should they care, all the virus does is replicate. It doesn’t delete all their digital camera pictures, mp3’s, downloaded movies or porn, so they don’t give a rat’s ass.
When the propagators of these virusses, the home users, start feeling the pain caused by these virusses, then they will take the time to think for a couple of seconds and do something about it. E.g. install and REGURALY UPGRADE their virusscanners, stop clicking of everything that say’s click me, run the WSH files that will protect their inboxes from crap.
Disclaimer: I haven’t actually looked at how MyDoom propegates at all, so I might be totally off on this. But since I’m not seeying as much as a glimp of this virus, I suspect it spreads in the usual fashion
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
There’s an interesting article on C# and it’s design goals on artima.com. In the article they talk with Anders Hejlsberg, the projectleader for the development of C# at Microsoft. They talk about the differences of C#, Java and C++ and why they made some of the choices they did. Really teaches you a lot on C#. You will need to have some knowledge about C++ and Java though.
Monday, January 26th, 2004
Go fetch WTP v0.7.0 while it’s still hot! Changes include some bugfixes, better errorchecking and register_globals=off compatiblity. FTP servers on different ports and anonymous ftp access are also supported in this release. Next to these, I rewrote some parts and cleaned up other parts. Hope you enjoy it.
Friday, January 23rd, 2004
There! I’m done. My last school project is over, and we’ve once again been able to scrape together a rather nice grade. 75/100 For the course we had to give about Linux Kernel Internals and a 80/100 for the Researchreport. I’ve finally gotten almost all of my grades for all the other courses. All that now remains is to complete my last exam-internship.
During that internship I’ll also have to find the time to complete two courses which I didn’t complete in the last year or so. Won’t be too much of a biggy I guess. I hope. ;-)
In the meantime I’m working on WTP. Doing a small code-cleanup and making everything more uniform. Added support for register_globals=off while I was at it. Just needs some testing and lots of bugfixes before I pour it out onto the world and call it version 0.8. Soon I hope.
Now I’m off to the bar where I will consume large ammounts of alcohol and smoke lots of tabacco, against the advise of our government. Because I feel it’s quality of life that matters, not quantity. Dumbass-governmental-health-freakish-hippes!
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
I just released Proms v0.9 (Changelog). I’ve got the flue at the moment, so I might have forgotten some important thing in this release which might break it. I ran a quick test though, and everything seemed fine.
Monday, January 19th, 2004
Pieterpost v0.10.8 released.
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