Archive for the 'Software' Category

Help Ubuntu, buy Vista?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

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.

Haml

Monday, May 21st, 2007

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 [...]

Post-FOSDEM

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

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. [...]

Ubuntu steunpunt reclame

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Een streepje reclame over mijn activiteiten als Ubuntu steunpunt, verschenen op Mechelen Blogt.

Testing Firefox 2

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Firefox 2 is looking good, though not that different from 1.5 after all. I do like the spell checker!

Chatting tot MSN contacts in Google Talk

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

This is how you can use Google Talk to chat on the MSN network. It even works inside Gmail.

Educatief programmeren

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Verslag van een leuke namiddag lesgeven over de computer in de klas van Katrien.

(e)Book: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I have read this crazy ebook by Why the lucky stiff, about the Ruby programming language.

Bubble Babble

Friday, December 9th, 2005

One of my favorite technology inventions is ‘Bubble Babble’, a human-friendly encoding for random data.

Software distribution goes virtual

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

With the release of VMware’s free Player product, more and more software will be released ‘virtually’.