Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
For the past half year we’ve been working on a research topic and constructing a course extracted from the research report. This is the last project I’ll have to pass so I can start my last internship. After that I will have graduated from the HAN university.
The courses I have followed so far (we all have to follow 3 courses done by fellow students) were pretty interesting. On monday I attended BioPython, which was actually more biology than python, but quite interesting nontheless. I’ve always liked biology, and especially evolutionairy theories. So BioPython and it’s biology introduction were pretty nice (lots of gene stuff).
Today I attended the User Interface Design course, which was about the interfaces of websites. I can’t really say I learned all that much new stuff, since I already designed my share of websites. But it did ring a bell or two about bad user interface designs for this site. Obviously, I’ve corrected most of them by now. My excuse for not testing those things earlier: This site is still in development, mmkay? ;-)
Tomorrow I’ll have to show up for yet another course, which will be Active Directory Design. Very curious what’s that going to be about. After that, on thursday, I’ll have to teach our own course: The Linux Kernel Internals. We’ve researched things like the memory manager, schedular, virtual filesystem, etc for the last half year. I hope people will like the course, though judging by the content of the other courses, ours might be a little on the heavy technical side. Bah, who cares… Thou shalt code die-hard C. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
Thursday, January 8th, 2004
Years ago I worked for a small company named Terrazur (back then it was named Assist-Online, actually). There I continued something which I started with Zetion. This something happened to be our graduation project from college. At Terrazur I worked as an intern on improving and adding various modules to Covide (at one time called Quin!Net… aaah, sweet memories).
Anyway.. After my internship there I continued to work on it for a while as a Holiday job, and after that I left the company. Since then it has grown and grown… into a very nice webbased groupware product. A friend of mine, sometimes referred to as mafkees, still works there, and he had a little announcement to make:
Covide is going open source. Pending consultancy from an employee of the dutch Chamber of commerce, they will decide on a license under which it will be released. I am of course hoping for something GPL compliant like the Perl Artistic License or perhaps LGPL or even GPL. The project will be served by sourceforge at http://covide.sourceforge.net. Exiting!
Once again, even though Terrazur is only a small company, it is setting presedences in it’s target market. This is a sure sign that companies are starting to feel confidence enough in Open Source that they are willing to engage in it. As the chief-executive of Terrazur, Willem Masier, obviously understands: The money is in the support, hosting, consultancy and customization, not in the software itself. This is especially true for small companies who wouldn’t make a dime selling shrink-wrapped software and having to compete with giants like Microsoft.
Press release (dutch).
Monday, January 5th, 2004
Well, it’s online! The first official layout of electricmonk.nl, which will in time replace nihilist.nl and todsah.nihilist.nl. Totally different that I first imagined, but that’s because I thought the other design tended to be a little crowded. Yaknow, like, *BAM* Huge sheets of text shoved in users’ faces. They don’t tend to like that very much. This is better, I think.
There is, as always, still some work to do on this site. I just remembered that that’s exactelly what I said when I went live with my last site. (Go check the news archive their to see if I’m right.) Amonst other things I still need a printer-friendly version of each page and a content-management system for the news. Hope I’ll get around to it eventually. Otherwise, it’ll have to wait to the next website I release.
Thursday, January 1st, 2004
Happy newyear folks! Last night I spent the evening with some friends of mine at Jaap jan’s home in Lunteren. We tried to have an outdoor barbeque (yes, in the middle of the winter, why not?) but we couldn’t find any woodchalk in the stores. (Big surprise! not). Instead we tried to use normal fireplace logs, but we couldn’t get the fire lighted due to the cold and wind. Too bad. All that was left to do was drink lots of beer. We had a pretty good time though; eating, drinking, watching the fireworks. Too bad it hadn’t snowed as the weatherforecast predicted. I’ve got no new-year’s resolutions of any kind, but I’m hoping to round of my study of Advanced Computer Science coming half year. Right now I’d better focus on getting rid of my mild hangover ;-)
Saturday, November 29th, 2003
Placed the initial version of my new GDB Debugging: A quick introduction tutorial/guide online.Released PieterPost 0.10.7, which fixes a security bug.
Monday, November 10th, 2003
The latest version of WTP, which is WTP 0.6.3 and which has just been released contains a bugfix for the wrong sizes of pop-up windows, directory listings can now show or hide hidden files, directories will always be displayed at the top of the files list and FTP rawlist summary lines are now hidden (again).
Sunday, November 9th, 2003
Pieterpost 0.10.6 released. Bufixes include: better mime parsing, improvements in the translations, To and CC fields are shown when appropriate and the first form field is now automatically focussed.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2003
Fixed the links on the Small Programmings page. Downloads should be working now.Also fixed some faults in the Backup 0.4 package.
Thursday, October 9th, 2003
Fixed a typo and non-existing images in the Exim Virtual Host Wildcard Delivery document, thanks to Martin Grandrath.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2003
Added some new applications (VirtuaWin and Miranda Messenger) to the Windows section.
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