Ikke's Blog

Lack of updates

Hija,

as some of you might now I'm currently employed (just one month) at some nice company called Dedigate, where I'm allowed to do some nice coding stuff etc (ok, also less exciting things ;-)) whilst getting payed. As I'm behind a computer screens >8h/day over there, trying to write some good code, I'm not in a real coding-mood when I get home (don't flame me, I'm just some normal human being). This implies I rarely blog, as I don't like to blog about my "normal" life.

Nothing too fancy happened lately, except the fact I saw Arsenal (not the football club) live at BoomTown (wiiiii :-)), the DConf project was released to the wolves, and I got 20 years old today (07/28) (got a nice little present from my favourite girl, the piano and violin scores of the Brahms piece I blogged about before, thank you!).

I'm quite tired now, guess I need some good sleep to be able to get to work again tomorrow. 2 weeks to go :-)

LinuxTag day 2

So, I'm at LinuxTag currently, bloody tired, but well, having quite a good time after all (god I hate qwertz). I wouldn't say it's superb (talks tend not to go deep enough etc), but meeting some guys you've known on IRC for a while already in real life now is just great. Hacking on some things together (too bad I still havent got a laptop, which disables me from doing any real hacking myself, actually, we can only work together on one machine which does give problems from time to time), grabbing a beer (not to much, as beer is not as free as the speech couterpart ;-)), discussing things, just hanging around... Well, pretty much the things everybody does in here :-)
I won't write too much now (waaaaaay too tired), a larger "report" including some pictures might follow later (although that later might become "not within 2 weeks", as the following week I'll hardly be at home).

Fortunately we got some great wheather (although sometimes it tends to be too hot :-/)

LinuxTag 2005

So, I'll be heading to Germany tomorrow after my last exam, to attend at LinuxTag on Friday and Saturday. Most likely I will be at the Social Event too.
If you're reading this and you're coming as well, let me know, maybe we can meet :-) Leave a comment or send me some email, although I cannot promise I'll be able to check my email/blog comments over there... (I hope there'll be some public terminals)

Windows Picture and Fax preview question, and a little update

I guess most of you saw the Windows Picture and Fax viewer at least once already:

(click on the tumbnail for a full scale view)
Never mind the screenshot's content, it was the first one I could find on Google Images.

Now what's so special about this? Let's take a closer look:

"If you want to rotate the picture to the right, please click the button on the left. If you want to rotate left, you need the button on the right"

Is it just me who doesn't get the logics behind this? Guess I won't ever become a good UI-designer...

If anyone got a good explanation for this, please let me know.

Next to that: I haven't been working too much on coding lately, trying to study. I might overhaul the opluginmanager API completely once more, playing around with some idea's to make it more usable from languages other than C, so as long as I didn't decide on the final design (on which I'd still love to get some input) it's stalled a little.

I'll have my last exam on Thursday afternoon, then probably I'll take off to Germany to visit LinuxTag (let me know if you're coming), I'll be at Rock Werchter one day, then the VTK Weekend follows, our annual GAO barbeque,... Busy times to come :-)

Wikipedia Article of the day

Hija,

Today I implemented an idea I had been playing with for some time already: make a daily RSS feed of Wikipedia articles.
Why? If you add this feed to your aggregator, you'll be served a random article every day (or maybe twice a day, still have to decide at which frequency the cronjob should run) to expand your global knowledge, not only regarding tech-stuff ;-)

The blog page is here, you can find links to the RSS/Atom/... feed on the right.

Things could be somewhat buggy for now (there are lots of articles with lots of markups, some of them forbidden by b2evo, so I have to filter them out) but as more articles are aggregated, I'll be able to squash them :-)

I hope you like (and use) the service ;-) Spread the word!