Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Coding styles
Man, I love this quote I found in the Gaim HACKING file: “Coding styles are like assholes, everyone has one and no one likes anyone elses.” — Eric Warmenhoven or Luke Schierer (Gaim HACKING file) Excellent.
Software development lesson: Don’t refactor and implement
Well, today I’ve learned another valuable lesson about software development in the ‘real’ world. Today’s lesson is: When working on a new version of some piece of software, do not plan on refactoring and/or reimplementing features whilst at the same time planning on implementing new features. At my job, I’m currently working on integrating an […]
Cognitive overload
I’m a fairly easily distracted person. My schoolcards always had comments on them along the lines of “Good student but easily distracted”, “Sometimes a bit too much of a daydreamer” and “Needs to work on his short attention span”. I’ve always known this, and kind of assumed it was just my personality. But when I […]
Donate for Azie
I’m normally not much for donating money to charities, because usually those charities are only aiding in the further destruction of the human race by trying to cheat on mother nature. But I’m making an exception for the victims of the earthquake in Azie. All you dutch people, please consider donating to Giro 555.
Imitating google’s ‘Suggest’
A lot of sites (PHP.net amongst others) are imitating google’s ‘Suggest’ feature (See this post). No doubt google will receive all the credit for this invention, even though plenty of other people already implemented similar features elsewhere. That, however, is not my gripe with this technology.. The problem is that this ‘feature’ FUBAR’s my browsers […]
No EU software patents for now
GrokLaw announces, in this article the following: “In a totally unexpected turn of events, the EU Council took its proposal for a software patent directive off its agenda during today’s meeting. […] Polish undersecretary Wlodzimierz Marcinski asked for additional time in order to be able to write up a “constructive declaration”. The meeting chairman accomodated […]
Chello Upgrades speeds
Chello has upgraded the speeds for my internet connection. I’m now on 4096Kbit down/1024Kbit up, which is equivelant to 512kb down/128kb up. Sweet. Here’s a little proof: I just downloaded the OpenOffice.org 2.0 preview release (94 Mb) in 4 minutes.
Technological advancements
Sometimes it takes a little while to realise something is actually really stupid. Take this for example: “Chalk one up for teachers. What better way to present educational materials than with a template that evokes the classic image of the teaching profession?” It’s an KeyNote theme. KeyNote is a tool for creating presentations for the […]
Spamfilters: Useless
I hate spamfilters. For years now I’ve run my own server at home without problems. Suddenly my provider, C-hell-o, decides that I need some sort of semi-dynamic IP. I don’t understand why, but anyway. So guess what.. It turns out that those spamfilters have the whole UPC range blocked as ‘Spam senders’. Ooh, nice. NOT. […]
On statistics…
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde “First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.” — Mark Twain “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” — Benjamin Disraeli “Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an […]
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