Ruben Vermeersch: It’s all about being productive
Stuff like this makes me sad:apparently rethinkdb’s official js client is coffeescript hahahah #fail— TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) May 7, 2013Also, the github issue where TJ requests that everything...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: The Cost of Being Convinced
When debating, we usually consider that opinions are merely resulting of being exposed to logical arguments. And understanding them. If arguments are logical and understood, people will change their...
View ArticleStephane Delcroix: It's all about monkeys
Yesterday evening, May 7, two belgian user groups, MADN and DotNetHub invited me to give a 2 hour introduction session on creating multi-platforms mobile applications in c# with Xamarin 2.0.Microsoft...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: The Race For Resources
Today, disk space is not an issue for most of us. I remember when my father came back at home with my first hard drive (80MB!) for my Amiga in the Nineties. My reaction was “Wow, we will never fill...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Reducing risk in the Drupal 8 release schedule
Post-Drupal 8's feature freeze, we find ourselves in a similar state as we did after Drupal 7's feature freeze: Some initiatives are mostly done, and now onto clean-ups.Others are mostly...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Dude, where’s my WordPress session?
WordPress is a favourite hackers target. Some say that is because it is inherently insecure, but in reality WordPress is mainly a target because of its popularity, because of people not keeping their...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Harper Blynn
“Knife” is great songwriting by New York’s Harper Blynn, performed live on a balcony in not-so-sunny LA for BalconyTV.Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Possibly related twitterless...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: morituri and Hidden Track One Audio
I have tomorrow (saturday) blocked out for a whole day of morituri hacking as I will be home alone.One of the things a lot of morituri users are puzzled by is its relentless drive to extract every...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Improving File Integrity Monitoring with OSSEC
FIM or “File Integrity Monitoring” can be defined as the process of validating the integrity of operating system and applications files with a verification method using a hashing algorythm like MD5 or...
View ArticlePatrick Debois: Compiling a nodejs projects as a single binary
Let's face it, if you write software it's often hard to distribute it: you have the runtime , the modules you depend on and your software itself. Sure you can package that all but packages ofter...
View ArticleJan Vansteenkiste: Working with git submodules: tips ‘n tricks
Some people hate it, nobody loves it, but it’s a good way to split codebase in different components/repositories.I have been using submodules a LOT for puppet development (all those puppet modules…)....
View ArticleTom Baeyens: The Case For Cases
Last year, the data produced in the world would fill DVD stack reaching from the Earth to moon and back. And it's growing exponentially. What does that mean for the enterprise? Piles of data do not...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les faiseurs de pluie et de beau temps
Comme chaque année, Nest’up tient ses promesses. Et la fournée 2015 ne semble pas faillir à la tradition. Parmi les heureux nominés, nous avons rencontré Géraldine et Fabien, initiateurs du projet...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Setting custom puppet facts from within your Vagrantfile
You may want to set custom puppet facts in your development environment by specifying them in your Vagrantfile, so you can have a unique fact per developer or identify your own environment. Here's a...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Single-stepping init systems
The Linux init systems are a bit in flux at the moment. That is, they're in flux in Debian; outside Debian, most other distributions have stepped away from sysvinit and towards something else (systemd,...
View ArticleJochen Maes: Tribute To Mady
\\//,A month ago I posted a small text for Mady. Mady was a friend that carried a huge burden.She had Huntigton's disease , an illness that takes away pretty much everything you have control of, you...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Want more features in Drupal 8? Help fix bugs!
Topic: DrupalIn Drupal core, we use issue thresholds to manage technical debt. Both critical (release-blocking) and major (non-release-blocking, high-impact issues) are considered. When we have more...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: ksplice and how it really helps with 0day stuff
So a nasty bug report came out the other day on linux, a serious exploit. Everyone scrambled to get a kernel built and (tested) and released and then there's of course the effort of bringing down...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Automation] Cloudforms – May/June 2013 – Belgium
Dear *,Next week, I will do a presentation about Cloudforms (Hybrid cloud management solution) [1][2]. If your company or you are based in BeNeLux and are interested by this presentation, just let me...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube: Modeselektor Essential Mix
BBC Radio 1 has a great series called the “Essential Mix“. There’s a lot of those on YouTube and Modeselektor‘s is one of the truely great ones amongst those. Enjoy!Watch this video on YouTube or on...
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