Raymond Feist – Rides a Dread Legion

March 22, 2009

This review does not contain any spoilers. If you haven’t read any books of Raymond Feist yet, this book is not a good place to start. Although it is the first book in a new series, The Darkwar Saga just like the other series (The Empire Trilogy, The Riftwar Saga, The Serpentwar Saga, The Riftwar Legacy, …) is part of a bigger series. I recommend reading them in a more or less chronological order.

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Using the iPod Touch or iPhone to read ebooks

February 25, 2009

I only have an iPod Touch, but the software and features I will describe in this post are also valid for the iPhone. In the title I carefully avoided calling the iPod Touch an ebook reader. Yet, I do know the expression, ‘If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck’. Ebooks can be copied or uploaded to, stored on and read using the iPod Touch and iPhone, but I am still reluctant to call the iPod Touch an ebook reader. My definition also includes it being based on E-Ink/Vizplex technology that is less straining for the eyes than a computer screen. But that’s just me, if you want to stick with the duck test, that is fine too.

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1 month of blogging

February 24, 2009

I started this blog on January, 1 2009 mostly out of curiosity. I had no prior experience with blogging, I just wanted to give it a try. Never did I expect it would be this much fun and excitement: the writing, the attention, the response, … When I activated my blog I thought of attracting a 100, maybe a 150 visitors in the first month, but I didn’t expect it would reach 1639 unique visitors.

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Installing a virtual Ubuntu LAMP-server on Mac OS X using VirtualBox

February 2, 2009

Virtualization is a hot topic in ICT. How can you put this to use at home and more specifically on your Mac ? You can use it to run Windows on your Mac, but also to try out different flavors of Linux or to run a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) development server. If you have a spare recent pc you can install a baremetal hypervisor like XenServer5, but that’s a different story. If you want to install a hypervisor or virtual machine monitor on your MacBook, Mac mini or iMac, there are a number of solutions available. To name a few: VMWare, Parallels, Q and VirtualBox.

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BeBook one month review

January 26, 2009

I have been using my BeBook ebook reader for one month now, so I thought it was time for a first review. In this post I will write about the BeBook, what you can use it for, its features, possibilities, limitations and quirks and give you some advice before you buy an ebook reader. I have used a lot of its features, but not all of them and I also encountered some of the limitations and quirks. I will probably post an extra review in a couple of months when I had the time, the need or felt the desire to explore the rest of the features and possibilities. By the way, I love my BeBook.

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Running PHP CLI shell scripts

January 1, 2009

I already knew how to run PHP scripts from the command line (CLI), although I never really used it. What was new to me was that there are 2 ways of doing this. The first one is by using the php command and the second, and new for me, is by adding a shebang on the first line of your script.

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A nice gesture

December 31, 2008

At the end of September php|architect had some great news to announce concerning their magazine: a new logo, full colour printing and a new subscription price.

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PHP namespace separator

December 31, 2008

I honestly thought that the namespace separator for PHP was a done deal, namely ‘::’. It was originally planned to introduce namespaces in PHP6, but they moved it to the upcoming PHP 5.3 and due to problems implementing that they made a last minute change to ‘\’.
A lot of people are happy that PHP will finally have support for namespaces, but a lot of people also think they made a really bad choice for the separator.

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The quest for an ebook reader

December 13, 2008

During a conversation about SF & Fantasy books with a librarian he mentioned that he uses an ebook reader, because, like me, at home he hasn’t got enough shelf-space for all the books he owns, let alone for all the books he would like to buy. He also demonstrated his iLiad ebook reader and I immediately loved it.

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Eerste bericht

December 13, 2008

Ik heb een eigen blog. Ik heb de software zelf geïnstalleerd, ik host het op mijn eigen website en zal zelf ook bloggen.
De eerste twee stappen waren gemakkelijk, nu komt de derde stap. Waarover zal ik schrijven ? Welke verhalen kan ik vertellen ? Zal er iemand in geïnteresseerd zijn ? Nou ja, dat heeft nog nooit iemand tegengehouden om te bloggen, nietwaar ?

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