Tag Archives: .tech

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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Quora: Social networking without a cult of personality

Posted on Sunday January 16, 2011 by Ruben

I’ve become a fan of Quora lately, which is a community-moderated questions and answers site. Think Yahoo Answers, with quality rather than hilarity. Judging from the activity in my inbox (follow notifications for instance), it’s also very much on the … Continue reading →

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Linux Format #140

Posted on Thursday January 6, 2011 by Ruben

Apparently my head was on the front page of Linux Format Magazine #140: Good thing someone told me or I would have missed it. The interview (which I unfortunately can’t share) covers F-Spot, Mono, photography on the free desktop and … Continue reading →

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F-Spot going cross-platform

Posted on Sunday December 26, 2010 by Ruben

Timothy Howard started working on the heroic effort to port F-Spot to Windows. Still tons of work left to do, so it will take some time before this is anywhere near usable but it does seem to come along nicely. … Continue reading →

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White Christmas

Posted on Saturday December 25, 2010 by Ruben

For the first time in decades, Belgium is seeing a truly white christmas. Happy holidays everyone and have a great 2011!

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F-Spot 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 Released!

Posted on Sunday December 19, 2010 by Ruben

We’ve just pushed out a stable bugfix release for F-Spot: 0.8.1. This version contains a lot of crash fixes as well as a large number of updated translations. Upgrading is highly recommended. Some highlights: A fix for the rather annoying … Continue reading →

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CFP deadline for Mono @ FOSDEM 2011 nearing!

Posted on Thursday December 16, 2010 by Ruben

Heads up everyone! If you would like to present in the Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011, it is time to send your talk now! The deadline for doing so is in a bit over a week: Dec 25 (that’s … Continue reading →

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Taglib# photo support landed

Posted on Sunday November 28, 2010 by Ruben

It happened about a month ago, but the effort involved to get there still deserves a blog post: the photo support branch for Taglib# has been merged into the main repository. This is quite significant: aside from audio and video … Continue reading →

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Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011: It is on!

Posted on Wednesday October 27, 2010 by Ruben

For the second year in a row, there will be a Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM. We had a very nice edition last year and we are looking to improve on that. We are looking for speakers to fill up … Continue reading →

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Renaissance man: Legal

Posted on Saturday October 9, 2010 by Ruben

commit 9e22fb3ccf56520c298fcc8bd95697c3d6f8adbd Author: Ruben Vermeersch <ruben@savanne.be> Date:   Sat Oct 9 13:58:34 2010 +0200 Change license to MIT X11. Many months ago I started contacting all F-Spot contributors and now I am happy to announce that the process has been completed: … Continue reading →

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