Jeroen De Dauw: Quotes: Entropy, the final enemy of all things
Recently I wrote about the books I read in 2015, and promised a post with quotes I particularly liked. These fall into several categories: funny ones, those with a high coolness factor, and those that...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: FAF science: Percivals vs T1 PDs
I’ve decided to start with writing small to the point blog posts on Supreme Commander Forged Alliance whenever I stumble upon a good topic. For those who don’t know it, this is the best Real Time...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Autoptimize: why are .php,jquery excluded from JS optimization?
If you see .php,jquery added to the JS optimization exclusion list and wonder why that is the case; these are added by WP Spamshield to ensure optimal functioning of the that plugin and when you remove...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Third set of speaker interviews
We have added a whole lot of new interviews with some of our main track speakers, with topics varying from systemd through the Vulkan graphics API, live migration of virtual machines and code reviews...
View ArticleWim Leers: Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by...
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years. I also contributed an article — what follows is a verbatim copy of my “2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Know about secure communication apps and privacy?
For the people on Planet Grep (and other technology-minded boys & girls): I’ve been contacted by a journalist who is looking for someone with knowledge of how secure communication apps (Telegram...
View ArticleWim Leers: BigPipe introduction webinar
Acquia frequently does webinars and given my work on BigPipe, I was asked to present with Fabien Potencier (of Symfony fame). Fabien covered back-end performance in the form of profiling, I covered...
View ArticleJoram Barrez: Activiti Community Meetup Antwerp – March 2nd 2016 !
It’s been way too long ago we’ve had an Activiti meetup in Belgium (which is where I live, so there is no excuse really). Over a lunch with my good friend Yannick Spillemaeckers, we decided to rectify...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Alabama Shakes’ feeling good
Alabama Shakes performing “This Feeling” live. “Please don’t take this feeling I have found at last”. Soul as it was meant to be!Watch this video on YouTube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Music...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Printeurs 38
Ceci est le billet 38 sur 38 dans la série PrinteursNellio et Junior sont arrivés dans une usine de mannequins sexuels à l’effigie d’Eva. La voix d’Eva retentit derrière eux.— Qu’est-ce qui me prouve...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: The Liskov Substitution Principle
I have a number of web-based presentations online on the software craftsmanship topic. You can find these on the software craftsmanship page of my website.I’ve just written an abstract for a...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Playing with Letsencrypt
While I'm not convinced that encrypting everything by default is necessarily a good idea, it is certainly true that encryption has its uses. Unfortunately, for the longest time getting an SSL...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Fast tracking life-saving innovations
Last week, a member of my family died in a car accident. Jasper was on his way home and was hit by a taxi. He fought for his life, but died the next day. Jasper was only 16 years old. I was at Davos...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Replicator: Wikidata import tool
I’m happy to announce the first release of Replicator, a CLI tool for importing entities from Wikidata.Replicator was created for importing data from Wikidata into the QueryR REST API persistence. It...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Last set of speaker interviews
We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend! Blake Girardot: Putting 8 Million People on the Map:. Revolutionizing crisis response through open mapping tools...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Coming soon: SysCast
The post Coming soon: SysCast appeared first on ma.ttias.be. I'd like to introduce you to SysCast, a new online resource for learning about Open Source projects and Linux through screencasts.I'm...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Roadworks near ULB Solbosch
Like last year, there are roadworks on Av Buyl near the ULB Solbosch campus. This affects travellers coming by car or public transport. By car Please be aware that the entrance to the campus on Av Buyl...
View ArticleMatt Casters: Matt’s Mad Labs Hangout
I’m starting a new quick and easy way for Pentaho labs to connect to the community: a regular hangout. The first hangout will take place on February 16th, 7pm CET, 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific.Matt’s Mad...
View ArticleWim Leers: BigPipe webinar
This talk covers everything in BigPipe (the webinar I did a few weeks ago was only an introduction).I’ll let the webinar summary speak for itself:Did you know that the majority of the time spent...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC Diary] Scripting Web Categorization
[The post [SANS ISC Diary] Scripting Web Categorization has been first published on /dev/random]The following diary was published on isc.sans.org: Scripting Web Categorization.[The post [SANS ISC...
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