Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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DataQ v0.1
I’ve written a small message and data queueing server in Python. It has a fairly simple text-based protocol featuring single line commands like ‘PUSH queuename This is a message‘. It features FILO and FIFO queues and various queue restricitions like size restrictions, etc. The basic idea behind DataQ is to make it easy to have […]
New screenshots for Proms and RSSMerger
I added some new screenshots to the PROMS and RSSMerger projects.
Proms v0.11
Proms v0.11 has been released. Many, many changes went into this release, amongst which are: Many bugfixes. Many security fixes. Completely new interface. Better E-mail notification. (Faster, more features) File management. Many improvements in the discussion module. BBcode support in the discussions. Many navigational improvements.
rssmerger v0.3 released
I’ve just released rssmerger v0.3. This release fixes a bug where a RSS feed with multiple root nodes (for instance, a xml and xml-stylesheet) wasn’t handled correctly.
Alarm.sh: A simple alert tool
A guy phoned me up last monday and said, “Don’t forget about our appointment tonight at 20:00!”. “I won’t”, I told him, put the horn down and thought to myself “I will forget about this. Better quickly whip up a script to remind me tonight”. So I did. That evening I was working on the […]
Proms v0.11 …
Proms v0.11 is progressing nicely. Some time ago I started the testing phase, but since then have added enough new features to merrit a restart of that testing phase. Included in the new release will be a lot of bugfixes, security fixes, addition of files and a new and improved interface. For a sample of […]
Programming playground
I’ve added a new section called Playground to the Projects page. It’s where I’ll be stashing all experiments I do for various things like CSS, PHP, DHTML, Javascript, Soap, XMLHttpRequest stuff, etc.
Proms v0.11 enters testing stage
Proms v0.11 has entered the testing stage. In the next week I will be testing all new features and doing some serious bug hunting (and fixing). After that the new version will be released. About time too. The last version was released over a year ago.
Your new Open Source project
Nice article on Newsforge How to plan your new open source project Lots of startup projects on the big online free software repositories have been abandoned right after being created, or linger in alpha stage for many years. I have founded four open source projects, of which two have been successful, while the other two […]
ListPatron and GtkGrid
So far I’ve been using GTK’s GtkTreeView in ListPatron. While this works fairly well, editing and manipulating columns is quite a hassle. For instance, it is practically impossible to select a column, let alone more than one column. Someone on #gtk+ (FreeNode IRC network) pointed me to GtkGrid. I’ve done some research on grids for […]
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