Our little Open Source Tuesday was yesterday night – we had a sit-down, took out our laptops, and continued our projects. All three of us. I worked on understanding the PHP build system and workflow when creating C extensions. Got a bit further. I feel the need to write down the sequence of my failures, …
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Fortran Board Game
Fortran Board Game Originally uploaded by ChipX86 I lack words. The subtitle: Input: Reason – Output: Pleasure
Mercurial fanboy
I am impressed with the simplicity of Mercurial (the distributed version control system). It’s Python, and it’s got a built-in webserver, so it’s simple to show stuff to people: hg serve [OPTION]… export the repository via HTTP Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server. By default, the server logs accesses to stdout and …
Marketing that Open Source Tuesday
20 Originally uploaded by Br0m Today I asked Henriette Weber where to post the concept of “hack meetups” in Malmö to get folks to know about it. She said she’d email the BarCamp Copenhagen mailing list. Excellent idea. Thanks. Also, when making your mind up if you want to come, please tell me about it …
Obama, Open Government: machine-readable govt documentation trails
By reading random($foo), which had a long list of Obama facts, I now understand why Mr. Barack Obama is a chance for USA to heal. I endorse that guy. Read about machine-readable docs at the xkcd guy’s blog. Programming folks would be enabled and implicitly encouraged to create community tools that actually monitored the decisions …
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Neologism: kanonsnabel
Neologism: “Där fÃ¥r man nog dra fram lite starkare kanonsnablar“. Tolkning: “Mer avancerade debuggingverktyg mÃ¥ste användas där.”
Talk on software quality with phpUnderControl
Update: More details on the place, and THANKS to Peytz & co. for hosting. The dog ate my fine blog post about the PHP Meetup this past Thursday. So I reconstruct this from memory. The past Thursday, there was a PHP Meetup Copenhagen, and I talked about phpUnderControl, a continuous integration server for PHP. Basically, …
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Mini-reminder: Mosig meetup at La Trattoria at 18:30 tonight
The amazing Malmö Open Source Interest Group (abbreviated Mosig) rolls on. “Odd Wednesday nights” is the meme that is our meetup schedule. The pizza place La Trattoria near Drottningtorget is the place to go. Also in the news: February 8 is the opening day for the new library in Sofielund. It’s called “Garaget” (English: The …
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FBO with slash: Now in Central Europe
Me and Darth Originally uploaded by frrederik I just had to republish this. He is safe and sound. The Swiss guys take well care of him. “The Sun shines wildly here. Have to be indoors.” he claims.
PHPUnit + runkit: now friendly together
To fake out resources when unittesting, you can now [1] use the runkit PHP extension, which adds some more dynamism to PHP, you get to: add methods, redefine classes runtime, or run code in safe sandboxes PHP heroine Sara Golemon created runkit, enabling this madness. (See her PECL user page for more of her Open …