March 09, 2009
I'm totally and absolutely p*****... Today the heating system installation guy showed at my front door. I was happy since we phoned the company like 30 times last week because they didn't show up.
Once he was in the house (actually they were two), they started mumbling something about "we don't have…
Once he was in the house (actually they were two), they started mumbling something about "we don't have…
March 05, 2009
I usually work in the evening (being a freelancer sometimes isn't easy :) ) but yesterday I spontaneously decided to go to the cinema. In fact, I've seen that "Watchmen" started in Belgian cinemas yesterday evening. And since I'm a fan of comics (I have around 4 meters of German/Belgian/french comi…
March 03, 2009
I just finished the review of Visual Lint. I'm currently uploading it onto my server to pass it to John for cross reading. There are quite some pictures (13). Hopefully you'll enjoy the review once it appears on the front page.
I'm currently re-working some formula rendering stuff that is needed for…
I'm currently re-working some formula rendering stuff that is needed for…
March 02, 2009
Ok... so today I phoned to the heating system company. Tomorrow morning they're going to replace the entire chimney. Hopefully I have an up and running heating system tomorrow evening.
I also phoned to the company that delivered the pellets (the small wood pieces) which are of very bad quality. They…
I also phoned to the company that delivered the pellets (the small wood pieces) which are of very bad quality. They…
February 25, 2009
Well... I got the pricing for my chimney replacement. And I must say that I'm quite upset. The "strong commercial effort" that had been announced by the company boss is limited to 10% of the material costs. The working hours got an overall estimation with the mention "to be determined". Currently I…
February 24, 2009
Today I had a visit from the expert designated by the insurance company to evaluate the damages in my house. I've told him about the stuff to replace and the renovations to do. When I mentioned that my chimney will be entirely replaced, he asked if the installer of my heating system will pay everyt…
February 23, 2009
Ok... so today the installer for heating systems was at my home to make the yearly service maintenance of my heating system. I managed to get his boss at phone this morning and he came, too. Not a foreman or so, but the companies boss.
We had a talk about the problems of my heating system and the wh…
We had a talk about the problems of my heating system and the wh…
February 20, 2009
This morning I was sitting in my hotel nearby my client's office when my wife called me, panicking... in fact I had a fire in my house and my wife was waiting the firefighters (who arrived quickly). She managed to stop the fire using all the fire extinguishers we had at home, but you never know... …
February 18, 2009
My 3rd review has been published yesterday. It's the PC-Lint review that can be found here.
I also have made some progress on the community project. In fact, I've decided to take a topic, a general genre and I've set up a website for it. The topic is the prohibition era in the U.S. and the general g…
I also have made some progress on the community project. In fact, I've decided to take a topic, a general genre and I've set up a website for it. The topic is the prohibition era in the U.S. and the general g…
February 08, 2009
I've seen that my community project has been picked for the journal pick of the week. I've yet to receive any feedback on that idea, but I didn't expect any because there isn't yet something to see. I'm not really sure how to approach the problem of setting the initial "fire" to the project.
I think…
I think…
February 05, 2009
Yesterday evening my wife called me to complain about the mail server she uses. Unfortunately, it's located on my current VPS which caused me so much trouble last week. I investigated the problem and found the server respond to ping but to nothing else (no web, no mail). I restarted the VPS and eve…
February 02, 2009
I've remarked that the images of my two reviews were missing. That was due to the server problems I had last week and the issue has been fixed. I've uploaded the images to my server.
More or less normal work re-starts today. I'll be working on my normal client projects as usual. But in the same time…
More or less normal work re-starts today. I'll be working on my normal client projects as usual. But in the same time…
January 31, 2009
Well... the week-end started. I finally managed to get my Sidema.be site back up and running, created the email accounts I needed and set up some other sites without filling them with content. I just put some email accounts to them.
All this Linux stuff and the problems I had this week really turned…
All this Linux stuff and the problems I had this week really turned…
January 30, 2009
Hi everyone,
I'm good, I'm fine, I'm done... I started to restore a backup into my VPS yesterday evening at 10 o'clock. It's stored locally on the server, so no data transfer from home. ONE HOUR later, the progress bar was at 7%...
So I contacted the support, and asked them some questions:
1. Why does…
I'm good, I'm fine, I'm done... I started to restore a backup into my VPS yesterday evening at 10 o'clock. It's stored locally on the server, so no data transfer from home. ONE HOUR later, the progress bar was at 7%...
So I contacted the support, and asked them some questions:
1. Why does…
January 29, 2009
really really p***** off by Linux. So, I paid 10 bucks to re-install my Debian based VPS and asked them to switch to Plesk Panel and to drop my DirectAdmin panel. Said, done... I set up my primary domain and an email account in that domain and I realize that I cannot tell qmail (which is now used) …
January 29, 2009
Hopefully the server is going to come back later today. In fact, I so totally screwed the installation, I wasn't able to apt-get anything. No remove, no install, no nothing... Linux sucks... if you're not used to it.
In the same time I've learned a lot: I visited every single folder in my VPS, took …
In the same time I've learned a lot: I visited every single folder in my VPS, took …
January 27, 2009
Well... some month ago I rented a VPS to host all my domains. The VPS came pre-installed with DirectAdmin as the administration panel. After some time I remarked that my site access was quite slow and thus, I wanted to see where the problem is. Unfortunately, I'm no Linux geek, so I read some stuff…
January 23, 2009
Hi,
As you might have seen, my Visual Sidekick review made it to the front page. And I must say that I'm happy about this. In fact, I've had some email exchange with John and Drew and it looks like as if my other reviews will be featured, too. Drew has already scheduled them and you can take a look …
As you might have seen, my Visual Sidekick review made it to the front page. And I must say that I'm happy about this. In fact, I've had some email exchange with John and Drew and it looks like as if my other reviews will be featured, too. Drew has already scheduled them and you can take a look …
January 21, 2009
Ok, so here it is:
Visual Sidekick by Syntaxia TechnologiesWriting about Visual Sidekick is a little bit more difficult. Not that it's complex... it's more difficult because it replaces a feature that is already in Visual Studio. Also, some features are contained in other tools that I review.
Basical…
Visual Sidekick by Syntaxia TechnologiesWriting about Visual Sidekick is a little bit more difficult. Not that it's complex... it's more difficult because it replaces a feature that is already in Visual Studio. Also, some features are contained in other tools that I review.
Basical…
January 21, 2009
Hi,
I'm still working on the review of Visual Sidekick but it will be late (this night hopefully). Basically, it's due to several things coming all together:
1. I've re-installed my computer. My new motherboard with the 8 GB Ram has arrived and I was eager to set it up. Due to the motherboard change …
I'm still working on the review of Visual Sidekick but it will be late (this night hopefully). Basically, it's due to several things coming all together:
1. I've re-installed my computer. My new motherboard with the 8 GB Ram has arrived and I was eager to set it up. Due to the motherboard change …
January 19, 2009
Hi,
thanks for your comments about my first review. I'll post the Visual Sidekick review on wednesday evening.
The last couple of weeks my motherboard behaved strangely. In fact, some symptoms from 6 month ago re-appeared: freezing upon USB restart during booting, network disconnects, flickering GFX,…
thanks for your comments about my first review. I'll post the Visual Sidekick review on wednesday evening.
The last couple of weeks my motherboard behaved strangely. In fact, some symptoms from 6 month ago re-appeared: freezing upon USB restart during booting, network disconnects, flickering GFX,…
January 17, 2009
Hi,
Yesterday I posted my review with a link to my other blog. It was about 0:30 and I was tired :) So, today, I'll try to make the review readable here :)
If you have read the list of tools I review, you understand that some if not most of them are used in combination. For example: I extensively use…
Yesterday I posted my review with a link to my other blog. It was about 0:30 and I was tired :) So, today, I'll try to make the review readable here :)
If you have read the list of tools I review, you understand that some if not most of them are used in combination. For example: I extensively use…
January 16, 2009
Hi,
As I stated yesterday, I'll start to review my current development environment. If you have read the list of tools I review, you understand that some if not most of them are used in combination. For example: I extensively use Visual Assist together with Visual Sidekick.
Since this review contains…
As I stated yesterday, I'll start to review my current development environment. If you have read the list of tools I review, you understand that some if not most of them are used in combination. For example: I extensively use Visual Assist together with Visual Sidekick.
Since this review contains…
January 16, 2009
Hi,
I'm currently trying to fix the page layout of the review which isn't easy... but... it'll appear very soon :)
Stefan
I'm currently trying to fix the page layout of the review which isn't easy... but... it'll appear very soon :)
Stefan
January 15, 2009
Hi,
As always this entry is mirrored on my other blog.
Since 1996, when I have entered the gaming industry as a programmer, I have seen a lot of tools coming and going which helped me to improve my code and facilitate the work I had to achieve. While I had to let lose some of them because they no mor…
As always this entry is mirrored on my other blog.
Since 1996, when I have entered the gaming industry as a programmer, I have seen a lot of tools coming and going which helped me to improve my code and facilitate the work I had to achieve. While I had to let lose some of them because they no mor…
January 06, 2009
Ok,
As always this blog entry is mirrored on my other blog.
as promised I'll talk about the missing stuff in the new data module. But I have a second topic that I'ld like to mention... but that's for later on.
So, if you take a look at the saturday's blog entry, you'll have a little idea of how the ne…
As always this blog entry is mirrored on my other blog.
as promised I'll talk about the missing stuff in the new data module. But I have a second topic that I'ld like to mention... but that's for later on.
So, if you take a look at the saturday's blog entry, you'll have a little idea of how the ne…
January 03, 2009
Hi,
As always this entry is mirrored at my other blog.
as promised yesterday today I'll show you the interface to the data value and the data module. In fact, as I stated yesterday, the data value interface is quite small since it only has to identify the type and to provide basic getter and setter f…
As always this entry is mirrored at my other blog.
as promised yesterday today I'll show you the interface to the data value and the data module. In fact, as I stated yesterday, the data value interface is quite small since it only has to identify the type and to provide basic getter and setter f…
January 02, 2009
As always, this entry is mirrored at my other blog.
Ok... so as you might have read I plan to improve SSCXML (Simple State Chart XML) to mirror a little bit better what is actually written in the W3C draft. One thing that is mentioned in the latest version of the draft is the split into different pa…
Ok... so as you might have read I plan to improve SSCXML (Simple State Chart XML) to mirror a little bit better what is actually written in the W3C draft. One thing that is mentioned in the latest version of the draft is the split into different pa…
December 28, 2008
First of all I wish you a Happy Christmas (a bit late, I know) :)
This entry is mirrored on my other blog site.
It has been a long time since my last blog entry. The primary reason for this is that currently I'm submerged in work. I've several clients who were waiting for stuff. For at least one clie…
November 24, 2008
a real bi*** when you want to copy your DVD collection onto an HDD. I have about 200 DVDs plus all Star Trek Series waiting to be pulled off the DVD and transformed into a PS3 readable format.
Although one might think that this is an easy task, I went from failure to failure in the last couple of we…
Although one might think that this is an easy task, I went from failure to failure in the last couple of we…
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