Links 'n stuff

Jul 30, 2008

100 Vim commands every programmer should know

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We all know Vim is the best editor there is ;-): endless posibilities, super fast editing and looking cool as hell when other people see you work. Here are 100 Vim commands [every programmer] should know.


Jul 17, 2008

Freerunner unboxing porn!

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My Freerunner will leave for shipment tomorrow! Unfortunately I’m leaving on holliday sunday morning so it won’t be another 8 days untill I can get my hands on it
To ease the pain (or increase it?) I’ve been scourging the web for reviews, pictures and the likes. There don’t appear to be many Freerunners [...]


Jul 15, 2008

Alfred Aho talks Awk

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Computerworld has an interview with Alfred V. Aho, where he talks about the history and continuing popularity of his pattern matching language. How it came to be and what’s behind it never decreasing popularity.
Don’t know what Awk is? Let’s see what Wikipedia tells us:
AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing [...]


Jun 29, 2008

Bad Karma…

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Jun 19, 2008

Iraqi children receiving candy

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Unfortunately the fat one takes it all…
He has some good moves though

Klik hier om het <a href=”http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/mysp4c3/Iraakse_Kindjes_Krijgen_Snoep_Hulk_Fight_.aspx” mce_href=”http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/mysp4c3/Iraakse_Kindjes_Krijgen_Snoep_Hulk_Fight_.aspx”>video filmpje</a> te bekijken


Jun 18, 2008

Movie: In bruges

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Looks great!
IMDB Page

In Bruges
by mamouang


Apr 14, 2008

djangogigs.com - Finding Django devs or gigs

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The website djangogigs.com is an excellent place for a company to find Django developers or for developers to find work as a (freelance) Django developer.
Two small things are missing though. One is a search function, pretty basic functionality that should be there and the other is that all gigs or developers are listed by country [...]


Feb 10, 2008

Ubuntu’s Upstart event based init daemon

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“Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices, USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon.”
I took at look at how Debian 4.0 (Etch) performed with the Initng daemon and now Linux.com has an excellent article from [...]


Feb 4, 2008

Web development with Django

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These days Web Applications are hot. Rich Internet Content, Ajax, Web Enabled, all buzzwords you probably heard about. In this article I’ll tell you about Django, a new web framework that will help you develop powerful applications for the web.


Jan 19, 2008

Java Application Plugins

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If you ever wondered how you can develop a plugin framework for your Java applications, then this paper by Martynas Jocius is something for you.
With one simple example that only has one class and one interface Martynas shows us how you can use plugins (or modules, what’s in a name?) with you application.