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Nog drie weekjes en het is weer zo ver...

  • 2001, Schiedam, Nederland
  • 2002, Bremen, Duitsland
  • 2003, Svendborg, Denemarken
  • 2004, Carvin, Frankrijk
  • 2005, Ptuj, Slovenie
  • 2006, Millstreet, Ierland

Submitted by Arne on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 16:20
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F*cking muggen

Al drie avonden op rij houd ik 's avonds jacht in de slaapkamer, geen vies prikbeest dat in mijn vizier komt en het overleeft. Maar blijkbaar weet er zich altijd wel eentje zich te verstoppen, want al drie nachten op rij lig ik een halve nacht wakker van gezoem rond mijn kop.

Resultaat vandaag : overslapen, en daarmee is de maat vol. Dit keer grijpen we naar de elektronische middelen. We hebben al genoeg zwarte en rode puntjes op de muren.

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 15:23
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The daily Nitro

Important 2007-12-01 : This article is deprecated. The location of the repository changed and I haven't had the time to update my scripts to reflect this. With version 0.50 approaching an easier way of trying out Nitro is on the horizon. I'll write a new article soon that will supersede this one. If you need help getting Nitro up and running please ask advice on the Nitro mailing list.

Submitted by Arne on Sun, 07/01/2007 - 17:13
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Nitro update

Nitro is seeing some action again recently, which is mighty good, obviously. Nitro is a free software framework (under the liberal BSD licence) for building wep applications quickly, utilizing the lightweight Ruby language.

The 0.42 release is very outdated compared to the repo version, so we're all preparing for a dazzling 0.50.

Submitted by Arne on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 22:02
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Announcing Pinyin for Ruby

This is a little library I wrote to convert between various romanization systems for Chinese. It currently supports Hanyu pinyin, Wade Giles, Zhuyin Fuhao (BoPoMoFo) and IPA (international phonetic alphabet).

A number of different systems to represent tones are supported : numbers, stand alone tone marks, accents or no tones. Take note that not all combinations make sense. E.g. ipa + accents will not yield useful results. However, numbers and standalone marks can be used with any system.

To get it do this

Submitted by Arne on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 19:57
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The Nitro documentation buzz

I'm finding myself slowly emerged in the Nitro community. Nitro is a ruby framework for the rapid development of web applications. Another such framework, Ruby on Rails, has gotten a lot of press. The alternatives are less known :

  • Camping
  • IOWA
  • Ramaze
  • Nitro

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 15:53
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