Xavier Mertens: BotConf 2013 Wrap-Up Day #2
I’m back in Belgium after driving a few hours back to Belgium and it’s time to give you my wrap-up of the second day. After a short night, we were back at the Chamber of Commerce in Nantes. The venue...
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View ArticleWim Leers: Drupal 8: perf & ops — cache tags & pluggable asset optimization
For this short talk, I chose two particular improvements in Drupal 8 that will make a big difference for future Drupal sites’ performance and ops (infrastructure requirements).The addition of cache...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Certification exams
The Linux Professional Institute and the BSD Certification Group will offer exam sessions at FOSDEM 2014. Interested candidates can now register for exams with the respective organisations. Further...
View ArticleDieter Adriaenssens: Travis and Android
If you're looking to build your Android app on Travis CI, using SDK r22.3 and API 19 (Android 4.4), put this in configuration file .travis.yml :language:javabefore_install: # install necessary...
View ArticleLOADays Organizers: Loadays CFP 2014
After a successful forth edition of LOAD, the crew decided to organize a fifth edition.You are invited to submit a proposal to participate in the 2014 Linux Open Administration Days in Wilrijk, Belgium...
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View ArticleDries Buytaert: The assembled web
Topic: DrupalThe futureOpinion(I originally wrote this blog post as a guest article for Forbes. I'm cross-posting it to my blog.)To "assemble" means to build. Assembling also means that we come...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Why the Belgian Cyber Security Guide Must Be Extended?...
A few days ago, I attended an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (ICC Belgium) and the Federation of Enterprises (FEB) to announce with great ceremony the release of the first...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Keysigning - submit your keys
Instructions on how to participate in the FOSDEM 2014 keysigning event have been published and the keyserver is accepting submissions. The annual keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Le cadeau réutilisable
Vous ne savez pas quoi offrir à Noël ? L’idée de vous entasser dans des centres commerciaux surchauffés vous donne des boutons ? Après une journée de shopping en ligne, vous vous sentez sale et souillé...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Twitter Used As Security Awareness Media:...
Yesterday a new trend started on Twitter with the hashtag“FiveWordTechHorrors”. I don’t know exactly who started it and why but it became quickly relayed and populated by many people working in IT....
View ArticleKris Buytaert: IPv4 Shortage can make you a billionaire
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View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Marble Sounds
Marble Sounds is a Belgian band that is getting some serious local airplay with “Leave a light on”, a beautifully sad song (and video) that has a vague hint of Christmas to it.Watch this video on...
View ArticleBert de Bruijn: which vSphere version is my VM running on?
(an update of an older post, now complete up to vSphere 5.5)Your Linux runs on a VMware VM, but which on which ESXi version? You can see for yourself: run "dmidecode" and look at lines 10, 11 and...
View ArticleBert de Bruijn: Identifying virtual disks in Linux on vSphere
A default virtual machine has straightforward hardware. A single SCSI disk on a single SCSI card, for example. Having multiple SCSI disks or cards in a VM creates the need for in-guest identification....
View ArticleDieter Adriaenssens: First Android app
This week I released GetBack GPS, my first Android app, day to day one year after the first commit that started the development.During this year, I put my newly acquired Java skills to use, explored...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Review: digitale kranten-apps
Sinds een tijdje ben ik de eigenaar van een Android tablet. De bedoeling is om er iets mee te doen (professioneel, dan), maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ik het ding niet voor andere zaken kan...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: More main track presentations confirmed
We are pleased to announce a second round of confirmed presentations. There is more to come as we are still reviewing a number of proposals. Mathematics track Title Speaker An Introduction to Sage...
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