2013
Tobin Daily Visits Screenshot During recent weeks, I’ve started to create
a new tool "Tobin" to generate website statistics for a number of sites
I’m administrating or helping with. I’ve used programs like…
Next Friday I’ll be giving a talk on Open Source In Business at the Campus
Party Europe conference in the O2 arena, London. The talk is part of the
Free Software Track at 14:00 on the Archimedes stage. I’m…
Would you want to invest hours or days into automake logic without a use
case? For two of the last software releases I did, I was facing this question.
Let me give a bit of background. Recently the…
During a conference some while ago, Jacob Appelbaum gave a talk on the
usefulness of the Tor project, allowing you to browse anonymously, liberating
speech online, enabling web access in censored countries, etc…
Image: Fernando de Sousa In the last few days I finished reading the "Black
Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Around last January I saw Günther Palfinger
mentioning it in my G+ stream, looked it up and bought it…
Image by Daniel Mitchell About Determine candidates and delete from a set
of directories containing aging backups. As a follow up to the release
of sayebackup.sh last December, here’s a complimentary tool we’re…
First, a quick intro for for the uninitiated, signals in this context are
structures that maintain a lists of callback functions with arbitrary arguments
and assorted reentrant machinery to modify the callback…