Tag Archives: .tech

Google+: The circle only goes in one direction

Posted on Sunday July 3, 2011 by Ruben

Plenty has been written about Google+ lately and one of the most common remarks seems to be “it is just like Facebook”. And I can’t blame anyone for saying that, in some regards it’s uncanny. But there’s a very important … Continue reading →

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Error dialogs: don’t be lazy.

Posted on Sunday June 12, 2011 by Ruben

Part of Telenet‘s digital TV offering is Yelo, an online service where you can schedule recordings. It even works on your phone and on the iPad, which means you never miss your favorite programs. Not home when it starts? Log … Continue reading →

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Looking for a secure digital archive

Posted on Wednesday April 27, 2011 by Ruben

When it comes to data, I’m a pack rat. I’m one of those people who has an archive of all mails since pretty much the first day I had an e-mail address. Now that we’re putting more and more stuff … Continue reading →

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New adventures in the work life

Posted on Sunday April 17, 2011 by Ruben

About half a year ago I decided to leave my research position at the university and look for new adventures: life is too short to do things which you don’t enjoy. In the past few months I’ve spent time traveling, … Continue reading →

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TagLib# 2.0.4.0 released

Posted on Wednesday April 13, 2011 by Ruben

TagLib# 2.0.4.0 has just been released. This is the first release that includes the full photo support that we’ve built last year. This means that TagLib# (used by Banshee, F-Spot and others) can now serve as your one-stop .NET library … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2011

Posted on Tuesday April 5, 2011 by Ruben

Like Vincent, I occasionally care too much about some things. Because of that, I volunteered for the second year in a row to help out as an admin for the GNOME Google Summer of Code. My role will mainly be … Continue reading →

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FOSDEM 2011 Mono room slides

Posted on Wednesday February 16, 2011 by Ruben

As promised, here are the slides from the Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011. Unfortunately no video recordings this year. Welcome F# to the MonoDevelop family (Tomas Petricek) [Slides] [Examples] Manos: web apps for the lazy hacker (Jérémie Laval) [Slides] … Continue reading →

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Post-FOSDEM 2011 / The Trollcat experiment

Posted on Tuesday February 8, 2011 by Ruben

The Mono Developer Room The second edition of the Mono Developer room was once again a great success. Good talks, nice atmosphere and some interesting discussions. Slides will be online soon, unfortunately no video recordings this year. The trollcat experiment … Continue reading →

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Mono @ FOSDEM 2011: Schedule announced

Posted on Tuesday January 25, 2011 by Ruben

I’ve just published the schedule for the Mono @ FOSDEM 2011 Developer Room. Full schedule (with biographies and abstracts) should be up soon on the conference website. For the impatient, here’s what it looks like: (13:00 – 13:10) Opening (Ruben … Continue reading →

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HTML5 for old browsers / browser testing

Posted on Saturday January 22, 2011 by Ruben

HTML5 is a great improvement for the web and like most designers, I try to use it in my web development work. There’s one little caveat to be aware of, which bit me in the behind quite hard recently: not … Continue reading →

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