Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Leah Culver is HOT!

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I’m sure some of you remember the girl who tried to buy her MacBook Pro by selling the space on the back of the screen for 50$/square inch. A genius idea!

Well, her name is Leah Culver and she is the lead developer behind Kevin Rose’s latest startup Pownce. She’s using Django for Pownce’s backend and […]

Imagine…

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

… having one of these little buggers in every room you might need a computer in.

I can imagine so much uses for it… web terminals in Kiberpipa, thin (ltsp) clients all over Kiberpipa, thin (ltsp) clients all around the house, audio input and output everywhere and with USB webcams video too, put a web interface […]

A curse of engineering mind

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

There’s a lot of useful, nicely designed, user proven, tested, stable, time saving, free or cheap services, programs, scripts, webapps and things alike in this world. And I could be using any one of them to get the job done well, effortlessly and on time.
And yet, for every useful, nicely designed, stable, free or cheap […]

Keeping up

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

As a user and developer of a range of open source applications and frameworks there are issues I and others have to face on daily basis. Badly designed GUI, bad exception handling, instability, a huge pile of dependencies, bugs that call them selfs features, slow and inaccurate operation, unreadable fonts, huge memory leaks, outdated documentation, […]

Google Summer Of Code 2007

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

The student application period for this years edition of GSoC started today. A lot of new mentoring organizations were accepted this year, but Kiberpipa did not get in. And more surprisingly, neither did Django Project (my last years’ mentors). Too bad. I had a lot of fun with my project.
On that note… I’ve started to […]

Some things…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

… are just damn funny! :)
Like this Henry’s Python Programming Guide - Part 1 from Henry the Adequate.
It made me laugh for hours! :)