Every now and then, I check the state of affairs in Linux GUI development (well …. the last time was six years ago). For the last few years I have been developing on all kinds of different platforms, Windows .NET, Android, Web. All these platforms are a breeze to develop Read more…
The last months, qTranslate was blocking my updates, because it gave me the message it will break my site. Too bad, the developer/maintainer of qTranslate seems to have abandoned his project, or he couldn’t find the time anymore. Luckily, thanks to the open-source-ness of the plugin, some brave souls have Read more…
Case Study In part 1 we defined our limits and the requirements needed to replace PHP. We gave Python a first look and found out it is quite easy to use it in Apache. To get a good feeling of what Python can do and how to build a Real Read more…
Introduction Yes, you read it correctly. After years (approximately 13) of using PHP as my go-to tool for web development, I decided to ditch it. It was becoming more and more of a nuisance and when I got more into C# and Java development lately, PHP started to really feel Read more…
When we launched Snøg Avalanche Buddy, we also decided to post the app on some winter sports forums. The reactions we got there were mixed, but mainly very negative. Part of the negativity was aimed at the safety of the app. In one case we were even threatened, that we Read more…
They oversimplify things, you can not pack a successful business / career / interview in 10 simple rules. If you could, everyone would be successful and not everyone is; hence they are nonsense. They are basically adverts, they often end in “Dude McDudeson is the author of ‘Be Branson overnight’ Read more…
For our Snøg Android app, I was browsing the web, figuring out how to add the UnlockBar I wrote to a Dialog, to create a slide-to-OK dialog. I reckoned this would be a simple case of extending the Dialog or AlertDialog class, build it and be done with it. Well Read more…
This week, I took up porting our Snøg Avalanche Buddy to iPhone. To do so, I had to learn quite some things. This post will touch all the troubles I have encountered and I try to compare it to developing an app in Android. Development Machine The first hurdle to take is Read more…
Ja hoor, vandaag al mijn social media profielen sites verwijderd. Facebook exit, Google+ exit. Ik ben er klaar mee. Wat mij betreft is de hype voorbij en kostte het alleen maar tijd. Ik kreeg er niks voor terug. Ow, en al dat privacy gedoe stond me vanaf het begin al Read more…
After some memory problems on a server, I started to look into it: what do all those number in the output of free actually mean? And, I found the answer in a forum: bf@tbwb-dt-bf:~> free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3978 3848 130 0 28 1985 Read more…