Devops Needs Sushi
planet.grep.be today has a lot of active open source users and contributors.
The weird thing is that we never meet apart from Fosdem.
Yes, we occasionally run into eachother at other events but there’s not enough beer involved.
I’ve had different people ask me what and where are the Open Source gatherings in Belgium, and we must admit that apart
from Fosdem there isn’t that much in our little country.
and probably my last one ..
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was looking into a way of converting my static page with published papers, articles and presentations in a more dynamic page where I could create RSS feeds from the updates and feed them into another site for everybody to use.
Some people suggested that I’d have a look at CCK & Views for this. While up till now when creating an app I had usually written my own Drupal module with my own database schema and manually written SQL Queries. This indeed looked like the perfect opportunity to dig into the CCK and Views thingie.
Dries commented on Seth reporting about the puppyfud some proprietary company not understanding open source was uttering.
It was a pretty lousy comparison actually .. they compared Open Source software to a Free Puppy.. it looks nice and cheap at first but it will cost you anyhow as it needs food and shots etc so it isn’t really free after all.
Now the fact is that with the proprietary stuff they are trying to shove down their customers throats, their CMS’s also need configuration, updates, and styling left and right, probably just as much as the Open Source alternative out there.
Now as they have a proprietary platform the chance that they have an equally big expert group around their product is small, people don’t just buy software to learn it, however they will download a piece of interesting open source software to get aquanted with it.. There probably won’t be that much free examples and tips and hints a round, or even free themes to base a site on ..
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ll know that
for the past decade I’ve had a love-hate relation ship with Sun.
Sun has done a lot of good things in their open source journey such as MySQL, openOffice , Virtualbox and opensourcing Java. But on the other hand they had troubles with creating really organic opensource.
I’ve always wondered why a company that bought StarDivision because it was cheaper than buying the MS Office license keeps wasting money on building it’s own operating systems, albeit in a pretty open model, but with zero to no relevant community.
So it can obviously happen to other platforms as well :)
My mother suggested that she would babysit while the 2 of us went out to eat yesterday. The idea was to have a good dinner in one of the restaurants that took part of the Restaurantweek.be action.
The idea is that you get a 3 course dinner for 25 Euro a person in a good quality restaurant .. therefore no brasserie or pubfood. With different of the top restaurants of antwerp taking part of the action we decided to pic a new one we didn’t know yet.
Have to close some tabs .. what more can I say ..
2 interresting articles about Drupal and MySQL performance tuning
Enjoy
I just blogged that I wanted the skype plugin to work in my pidgin, only to have 1 central chat window.
Guess what .. this really works. it’s that simple .. copy the 2 files, then setup the account .. I just had to disable the annoying skype sounds :)
As some of you know I run Fedora on my main Laptop, and Ubuntu on my EEE and my office Desktop. My Ubuntu installs were pretty fresh, but my fedora was long due for an upgrade. As after years of abuse (–force –nodeps) it usually is impossible to do a regular upgrade, so my best way out was a quick and fresh install on an isolated root partition. (my /home/ etc live on separate volumes)
I predicted it to some people and it actually became true :(
I just removed myselve from tomorrows BarcampGent 2 subscription list.
It seems I can make it to most of the “odd” issues of Belgian Barcamps, I made it to BarcampBrussels, BarcampBrussels3 and the first BarcampGent, but for the Even Barcamps , Brussels2 and 4 and now Gent2 there always seems to be something that eventually blocks me from going. Just like with the BXL edition family priorities kicked in.