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Java 4-ever…

vevmesteren — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:19:03 +0000

…and introducing Lenny Linux.

Worpress 3.0 introduction

vevmesteren — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:01:27 +0000

open source stress testing

vevmesteren — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:57:44 +0000

shared by Mark Val
Neat little application that allows you to test how your server will hold up once out there in the real world.

download jMeter
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TED : The year open data went worldwide

vevmesteren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:10:57 +0000

Wonderfully nerdy talk by Tim Berners-Lee given at TED about how data has been taken control of by the Open Source Community.

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

BigBlueButton – Open Source Video Conferencing

vevmesteren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:32:37 +0000

Promising Video conferencing tool that I stumbled across this weekend. It looks perfect for creating an online classroom, a small play ground for a dispersed development team, or pretty much anything else you can think of for this type of application. I tested it a bit with four people, and it ran really quite smoothly. The three roles are viewer, presenter, and moderator.

Viewer: are users who have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. In a course the viewer would be the students.

Presenter: has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop

Moderator: has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.

And the beauty of it all being that is open source and free.

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The Lo-Fi Manifesto

vevmesteren — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:25:27 +0000

1. Software is a poor organizing principle for digital production.
2. Digital literacy should reach beyond the limitations of software.
3. Discourse should not be trapped by production technologies.
4. Accommodate and forgive the end user, not the producer.
5. If a hi-fi element is necessary, keep it dynamic and unobtrusive.
6. Insist on open standards and formats, and software that supports them.

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Apple vs Google, Apple vs Adobe, Apple vs Microsoft, Apple vs Who else?

vevmesteren — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:13:23 +0000

The launch of the iPad (a name I still find rather unfortunate) kicked of a flurry of hoorays and boos from all over the web. It has really been quite funny to follow. I do have to admit I too have my problems with the iPad (or rather the iPodTouch which I own) in the sense that you HAVE to go through iTunes to manage your content. There are, off course, a multitude of 3rd party tools (or Linux hacks) that you can use, but the one and only painless way seems to be iTunes. Something that makes managing content on this device a pain, especially for someone like myself, who likes his Linux-Box.

The same goes for developers for whom the only way to distribute their content legally is the AppStore.

But it is not Apple’s refusal to embrace the open source universe and the hordes of developers who apparently stand at the ready, but rather the so called battle of the titans that the iPad’s release supposedly kicks of.
Let me admit at this point that I am really looking forward to my first meeting with this newest Apple-Gadget.

Apple has always wanted to depict themselves as the outsider, or the troublemaker, the different thinkers (call it what you want)…they have always been that annoying kid on the block that nag others for this and that (The year-old get a mac ads). But for the first time (that I can remember) a launch of a new product does not seem to have the unison wow-effect. This really gives me hope.

The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? (get used to the blue lego’s)

Adobe on their side, made the first step towards this handheld market, when they announced that Flash CS5 you can now compile your FLA directly to the iPod (and with that, I would assume, the iPad).

For years now, it has been clear that the web, as such, will move out of the browsers, and on to platforms. Why is it then then that people like Lee Brimlow (who calls himself a Platform Evangelist) are screaming so loud. A few years ago Adobe launched Air, allowing Flash developers to deploy their Flash creations in a whole new way. Yes there are now browsers that do not display Flash, but honestly, what would a full fledged Flash/Video website like Tackfilm look and feel like on an iPad. I have problems believing that the either a pod or a pad would be able to make this the memorable experience it could be. In any case, I think this is a question of choosing ones battlegrounds. I think Apple should definetely look into making the Flash player an option, but it not being there by default really does not bother me that much. Give people the choice of what they want to do with their new gadget. But then again has choice ever been in the interest of closed source system or platform suppliers.

The iPad And Chrome OS Netbooks Are On A Collision Course

What I really found interesting in this Techchrunch article was that they where seeing this as a start of an attack of Apple vs Google (and their highly anticipated Netbook) with Microsoft suffering in the middle. The question is, is Microsoft really suffering? If this really is a Mac vs Google issue, doesn’t this mean that Apple has lost focus. Have they become too confident by opening a war on a second front? A two front war is rarely won by those that start it. Is Apple really ignoring the most basic advice of Sun Tzu, who said “Never ever divide your army into two and never fight on two fronts at the same time”. I guess only time will show how this will turn out.

There is not really any point to my post, it is more of a message in a bottle really. Now I’ll throw it out into the sea, see if it’ll land on somebodies shore.

Advanced Python or Understanding Python

vevmesteren — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:48:44 +0000

stumbled across this wonderfully nerdy talk on Python. The intriguing part is the fact that this is a googler talking to googlers. As I have gone through and experimented my RoR book, and a friend mentioned Python the other day, it reignited my interest.

So I am thinking I should get myself some Python literature. If you have any recommendations as to books and what resources to use, please do tell.
I will install a Django on my server as soon as I get the time and get going….

Practical PHP DB Toolkit

vevmesteren — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:19:01 +0000

From what I can see, this toolkit essentially takes the best out of the Codeigniter Database Library and wraps it all in a standalone library that you can port into almost any other PHP application. Definitely worth checking out. I can see this work well with many scenarios. A standalone AMFPHP application, should you not want to include the full brunt of Codeigniter.

Also a clean option should you need to create an extension to an existing application. How many times have you had to take over someone else’s (undocumented) code. In any case this application is now hitlisted on my end.

Chrystal Project

Meet refinery

vevmesteren — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:01:55 +0000

I have not given up on my goal to fully add Ruby to the languages I speak. I have already worked my way through the book Ruby on Rails for PHP Developers which is a great starting point I found, if you are, like myself, fluent in one, and interested in the other. Refinery, it turns out, has somewhat the same story as my very own Shanti. Resulting of many productions, Refinery is the best-of each of those productions. All pooled into one app. I really think this app looks might interesting, and already have one site in mind that I definitely will be trying this CMS out on.

Refinery CMS Developers Screencast from David Jones on Vimeo.