I do myself run into this problem far to many times. Special Characters that end up being al jarbled up in my Database. I am talking about french special characters but I am sure that most other languages like Scandinavian and German chars would fall in...

Stumbled across this wonderfully simple yet efficient web-app over at zenhabbits and I have to say I am sold. I remember listening to "David Allen - Getting Things Done Fast" and one of his corner stones where lists. All in all highly efficient. I have...

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...

A little more then a year ago I finished working on the latest version of the Marketel site (front end developed by Mark Val). One goal that Mark and I set ourselves was that the site was to be fully Search engine optimized. That part was my job. I...

There are close to 30 million Linux users out there by now. And I would be willing to take quite the bet that many of them, myself included, are developers. Be it web- as well as application- developers. It baffles me how a company like Adobe, who does...

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement. Revolution OS - Movie...

I have to admit, that I did not manage to hold out and updated when the release candidate was ready last week. But now it's official, the even faster Karmic Koala is packed, ready and good to go. And 'go' it does. Faster then ever. I am with Ubuntu...

Congratulations Microsoft on the newest release of Windows. Some error messages for your consideration: Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. BREAKFAST.SYS halted... Cereal port not...

it has been a while since I launched my last Shanti. But here we go again. Degrace.net we gave to Ann-Karine Degrâce. The site holds nothing fancy, just another adapted version of Shanti. Tailored to her specific needs. I will be spending some weekend,...

I have been a very fond user of Quicksilver (when on MAC) for a few years now. I am still waiting for something remotely similar to come to my own Linux world, or for those poor sods still on Windows. But nothing has really come close to the look and feel...