Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
Friday, September 12th, 2003
Today I released Proms 0.8. This release of Proms has lots of bugfixes, code clean-ups and of course the new documentation system. I’ve also posted it to freshmeat.net in the hope that this will yield some bugreports and comments from end-users.
Tuesday, September 9th, 2003
I’ve been looking around for a good user-land VFS (virtual file system) library to include in my file manager Nimf. So far no luck. It seems every VFS library out there sucks. So far, I’ve looked at Gnome VFS which is unusable since it’s so annoyingly slow. Gnome-commander uses it, and it takes that file manager almost half a minute to load a directory with 290 files. Compared to Nimf, which loads it in about 1.5 seconds, that’s pretty slow. Having a bloated VFS in Nimf would be nice, but I’m not going to compromise any speed to it’s cause. That’s the whole reason I started Nimf in the first place and why I don’t want any bindings with Gnome. Other VFS libraries I’ve looked at include Midnight Commander’s one which seemed not to meet my demands. AVFS, which supports lots of stuff looks a bit obscure and isn’t really a library I think.
I’m not even really sure I want a user-land VFS library anyway. The old unix philosophy goes “Everything is a file” and a VFS library kind of contradicts that. What I’d personally like is a kernel module which allows you to mount Zip files and the likes. I’ve seen them around, and the only problem with that is that it might make Nimf less user-friendly.
I’ll do some more research into it and probably set up a VFS-comparison page where I’ll discuss the results. In the meantime any tips would be appreciated.
In other news: Tommorow me and my girlfriend Merel will have been together for precisely 1.75 years, which will be, like every other 15th of the month, no big deal at all.
Friday, August 29th, 2003
Finally got around to moving all those small and obscure tools and projects from the real projects page to the completely new Small programmings section.
Friday, August 15th, 2003
I released Proms 0.6.1, which is a quick release following 0.6 in order to fix some bugs.
Saturday, August 9th, 2003
New Firebird section containing my prefered Plugins, user.js and userContent.css settings.
Friday, August 8th, 2003
Added a Windows section containing some links to windows software which, hopefully, will make your windows-life easier.
Sunday, July 27th, 2003
A new tutorial/guide about DocBook: Really quick guide to DocBook.
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