Philip Van Hoof: Please remove me from planet-gnome
Please remove me from planet-gnome: I’m nothing but trouble.I want to create a new era for GNOME. The last few years at GNOME have created only desperation.You guys invested heavily in Woman outreach...
View ArticleTom Baeyens: 5 Types Of Cloud Workflow
Last Wednesday, Box Workflow was announced. It was a expected move for them to go higher up the stack as the cost of storage “races very quickly toward zero”. It made me realize there are actually 4...
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Frank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Flying Lotus + Kendrick Lamar
I love me some Flying Lotus and it so happens he just released the first track of his forthcoming album “You’re Dead”. The song is called “Never Catch me” and it features Kendrick Lamar in the first...
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Dries Buytaert: Reflections on Drupal in China
Topic: DrupalLocation: ChinaI just spent the past week in China, and I thought I'd share a few reflections on the state of Drupal in China.First, let me set the stage. There are 1.35 billion people...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 16 octobre – Apprendre à programmer à l’école :...
Ce jeudi 16 octobre 2014 à 19h, dans le cadre de la Quinzaine Numérique 2014 à Mons, le Mundaneum et les Jeudis du Libre s’associent pour proposer une conférence grand public sur les objectifs et les...
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Xavier Mertens: Security Appliances, Pandora’s Boxes?
No breaking news, nothing fancy in this quick blog post but it is worth to remember that security appliances can be a potential threat when deployed on your network. For years, security appliances are...
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Frank Goossens: The electric future of single-seat auto racing
I always felt somewhat torn between my love for F1 and my political/ ethical green-leftist point of view, so I was very glad to learn about “Formula E” earlier this year. This new competition focuses...
View ArticleJoram Barrez: Upcoming Webinar: Process Driven Spring Applications with...
Next week, I’ll be doing a webinar together with my friend Josh Long (he’s a Spring Developer Advocate, committer to many open source projects and of course Activiti). I will show some of the new...
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Frank Goossens: Septemberigheid uit Japan
Een mooie zomer, dat moet zo niet persé, zolang september maar prachtig is. En dat is ze in 2014 ook weer, die mooiste maand ter wereld!De septemberigheids-soundtrack van dit jaar komt uit Japan. Geen...
View ArticleDieter Adriaenssens: How I got more relaxed by no longer commuting by car
Yesterday was car free day, at least in Belgium, and by a happy coincidence I came across an article that pointed out a correlation between mental well-being and the means of transportation when...
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Frederic Hornain: [MBaaS] Red Hat aquires FeedHenry
Red Hat, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FeedHenry, a leading enterprise mobile application platform provider. FeedHenry expands Red Hat’s broad portfolio of...
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FOSDEM organizers: Call for participation: lightning talks and stands
We now invite proposals for lightning talks and stands. There is still time to submit main track presentations. The deadline for proposing developer rooms has now passed. Please see our previous call...
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Kris Buytaert: On Systemd and devops
If it's not broken , don't fix it. Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly Complexity is the enemy of reliability.Are some of the more frequently heard arguments in the...
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Dries Buytaert: Reflections on Drupal in Japan
Topic: DrupalLocation: JapanI spent the last week in Japan. The goal was two-fold: meet with the Drupal community to understand how we can grow Drupal in Japan, and evaluate the business opportunity to...
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Dieter Plaetinck: Graphite & Influxdb intermezzo: migrating old data and a...
Migrating data from whisper into InfluxDB"How do i migrate whisper data to influxdb" is a question that comes up regularly, and I've always replied it should be easy to write a tool to do this. I...
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Steven Wittens: The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
Form without FunctionThere's been a lot fuss about gaming and gaming culture lately, in particular the nature of gaming journalism. Don't worry, I'm so not sticking my face into that particular...
View ArticleDieter Plaetinck: InfluxDB as a graphite backend, part 2
The Graphite + InfluxDB series continues. In part 1, "On Graphite, Whisper and InfluxDB" I described the problems of Graphite's whisper and ceres, why I disagree with common graphite clustering advice...
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Frank Goossens: The Broken Smartphone Breakdown
I’m a spoiled, clumsy brat. Spoiled because my (previous) employer hands out yearly vouchers, which I use to buy me a new top-notch smartphone every 2-3 years. And clumsy as I all too often loose of...
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Frank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Benjamin Booker’s Violent Shiver
“Violent Shiver” was Benjamin Booker’s very first single. And it’s an impressive one, as far as one-song-debuts go. This is a live version recorded for WFUV.Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.
View ArticleDamien Sandras: GNOME 3 and HIG Love
I am making progress on the next Ekiga release. I have spent the last few months of spare time working on the user interface. The purpose is to adapt the UI and use the great GTK+3 features when...
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