Dieter Adriaenssens: phpMyAdmin and Google Summer of Code 2013
GSoC 2013 was great for phpMyAdmin. We selected 6 students out of 25 project proposals. The number of proposals was slightly smaller than previous years.Students Bin Zu and Supun Nakandala refactored...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: WP default themes 2010-2014: performance going down
Although it is easy to download and install free or “premium” themes, WordPress does come with a default theme that is updated yearly. Last year I did performance tests of Twenty Twelve and there were...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: Spacewalk 2.0 provided to manage Oracle Linux systems
Oracle Linux customers have a few options to manage and provision their servers. We provide a license to use Oracle Enterprise Manager's Linux OS management, monitoring and provisioning features...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Je suis passé à la télé !
Vous savez ce que je pense de la télévision. Mais je suis toujours curieux. Aussi, quand s’est profilée l’opportunité de participer à une émission grand public, j’ai tout de suite accepté, histoire de...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Devoxx'13] Java EE 7: What’s New in the Java EE Platform
This session was 3 hours of explanations on the containers which compose EE7 specs with a bit of sense of humour. Thanks a lot to the speakers.Ref :...
View ArticleBert de Bruijn: VMware Certified Associate exams are free until 31/1/2014
Using a voucher code, anyone can do a free VCA exam (datacenter virtualization, cloud, or desktop, and maybe network when it becomes available). VCA is a certification that you can do from the comfort...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Jono McCleery
Not sure is this is to be labeled electronica (what good are labels anyway), but Jono McCleery (who’s on Ninja Tune) works with clicks and beats but also acoustic guitar and he sings and, well, it’s...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Open Source and non profit
I have always thought that Open Source and the non-profit sector where a match made in heaven, but there is too little information structurally flowing to organizations that are already achieving much...
View ArticleChristophe Vandeplas: Suricata monitoring with Zabbix or other
When your Suricata IDS system runs you might want to monitor it for various reasons. One of them is to be able to get alerts when things go wrong, but another reason could be that you want to be able...
View ArticleDieter Adriaenssens: Choosing a name for my Android app
After finding out that the working title of my Android app already seems taken, and with a first release upcoming, it seems time to look for a good name.First some explanation of what my app does (and...
View ArticleDamien Sandras: I’m finally on twitter
I have finally decided to activate a twitter account.Short posts and news will go to twitter. I will of course keep maintaining this blog alive for longer news about Ekiga.Share on Facebook
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Keep an Eye on Your Amazon Cloud with OSSEC
The Amazon conference“re:Invent” is taking place in Las Vegas at the moment. For a while, I’m using the Amazon cloud services (EC2) mainly to run lab and research systems. Amongst the multiple...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Le web, ce pulp ultime
Où l’on compare le parcours des auteurs du siècle passé avec les opportunités et les outils de la future décennie. Et où l’on intronise pompeusement le « lectauteur ».Glorieux passéJ’ai grandi dans les...
View ArticleChristophe Vandeplas: Suricata capture.kernel_drops caused by interrupt...
For quite some time I was confronted with a huge amount of kernel_drops with Suricata. After quite some time of debugging, and with the help of the Suricata developers, I was able to pinpoint the...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Mobile WP YouTube Lyte; no-one said it would be easy!
WP YouTube Lyte and mobile, I must be honest, it is not an easy marriage. Light YouTube Embeds focuses on optimizing performance by displaying a dummy player which takes less then a tenth of what a...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Thirty-five
Topic: PersonalBirthdayDrupalI'm turning 35 today. 35 is a weird age. It feels like a milestone birthday; like I'm turning the corner into adulthood for good. Turning 35, it seems, is not without...
View ArticleMatt Casters: Announcing Pentaho 5.0 Community Edition
Dear Pentaho friends,Today it’s been almost a year since we released Kettle 4.4 as part of the Pentaho 4.8.0 suite release community edition. Today we’re very happy to announce the availability of...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 12 décembre – Logiciels Libres : défis et...
LoLiGrUB, le Mundaneum et les Jeudis du Libre, avec l’aimable soutien de Google, vous proposent une conférence d’exception s’adressant à tous !Ce jeudi 12 décembre 2013 à 19h se déroulera la 24ème...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; The Cure’s acoustic Lullaby
I heard this great acoustic version of The Cure’s Lullaby on Radio Nova last Tuesday, love the percussion on it!Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Music...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: First main tracks and keynote presentations!
We received a lot of good proposals and deciding which ones to accept is not an easy task. A number of proposals are still being reviewed and we are still working with some speakers. We can already...
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