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Yes there are still traditions…

I’ll be attending FOSDEM this weekend (albeit not the full weekend). Unlike previous editions I was hardly involved in the speaker interviews — the very capable K.V. handled those this year. I did contribute to the questions in Brion Vibber’s interview though. The organizers are once again making a nice leap in quality. Case in [...]

Ubuntu users, if you need to get wifi up and running for a bcm4318 wireless-G chip and NdisWrapping the supplied Windows driver does not do the trick, then get your tips here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff When the network is up and running, use it to send a message to Broadcom to demand some hardware specs for the b43 driver [...]

The book ‘Framework Design Guidelines’ is high on many .NET programmer’s recommended reading lists, so I decided to finally try it out. To me, it scored bad points for its awfully long subtitle (Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries — Microsoft .NET Development Series). We’ll refer to it as FDGCIPRNL as a form [...]

I know, the title sound like spam For fun and profit, I decided to check whether you can truly send SMS messages for free using Twitter (Wikipedia). Yes, it does work, except that you can only send to other Twitters — the free part is more about receiving SMSes rather than sending them. So [...]

As a companion the the iWoz book, I also read Revoltution in The Valley – The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. It was not a page-turner like “iWoz”, but just as interesting to read. Just like with the book by Woz, I already knew some of its contents — this time by accidentally [...]

I recently read this book by Steve Wozniak: iWoz. It’s an exceptionally interesting biography, if you care for technology and some personal computing history. I listened to Wozniak via IT Conversations before (it’s the highest rated talk over there), so I already knew some of the anecdotes and developments, but the humor and engaging style of the [...]

Code debuggen in een droom is lastig. Het gaat niet. Het is onmogelijk. Aaargh! Een bijzondere eigenschap van dromen is dat cijfers en tekst erin veranderen als je even wegkijkt. Bovendien gedragen technische apparten zich zelden naar behoren in de droomwereld. De ervaren dromer leert zulke eigenschappen te herkennen en er gebruik van te maken, om zo tot een lucide [...]

Het Belgische Umicore Solar Team 2007 is bijna klaar met hun race, de world solar challenge 2007 — zowat de belangrijkste wedstrijd voor zonnewagens ter wereld. Op hun blog kan je goed volgen hoe het eraan toe gaat. En dat is dit jaar enorm spannend: er werd haasje-over gepleegd met de absolute topfavorieten, het Nederlandse Nuon Solar [...]

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 [...]