As an Ubuntero waiting for the 7.10 release, Windows Vista is definitely not on my wish list. If it is for you though, then please consider buying this Ultimate Edition box on eBay. In an ironic twist, the full sale price goes to ubuntu-be.org.
I’ve been reading my “Agile web development with Rails” book, which I bought at FOSDEM in early 2006. It had been lying around half-unread every since. Of course, by now the latest Rails releases have deprecated some stuff that’s recommended in the book, but almost everything is still compatible. Trying out the examples in [...]
It’s been a while, but here are my post-FOSDEM 2007 blabberings. It’s amazing to see how the conference has grown, and how much people the ULB campus can handle… Skimming the blog posts about FOSDEM, some lovely quotes about the conference are revealed. Words like “well organized” and “best I’ve been to” weren’t absent. [...]
This year, I’m not only visiting FOSDEM, I’m also contributing to it. I’m one of the web site maintainers, and I’ve been very busy with the speaker interviews. The first batch has just been published, with more still to come in the next weeks. There still is some work left to do, but I’m [...]
Sinds een tijdje probeer ik om zoveel mogelijk kleine ongemakken in open source software te rapporteren. Vaak zijn de respectievelijke auteurs oprecht blij, en al zijn het slechts kleine bijdragen, vele kleintjes maken al snel een mooi afgewerkte distributie. Zo ook met het Nederlandstalig handboek van KTurtle. Daarin stonden enkele syntaxfoutjes, waarschijnlijk nog artefacten uit een oudere [...]
Een streepje reclame over mijn activiteiten als Ubuntu steunpunt, verschenen op Mechelen Blogt.
Firefox 2 is looking good, though not that different from 1.5 after all. I do like the spell checker!
With the release of VMware’s free Player product, more and more software will be released ‘virtually’.
OpenOffice 2.0 is out. I’m curious!
I am now the official (and first) translator of PhpGraphy to Dutch.