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What do you get when you cross the vi editor with Keanu Reeve’s “The Matrix”? A cool game called dwarf fortress. A game that is awesome in many MANY ways. I’m not much of a gamer. As a matter of fact, lot of programmers aren’t and are more interested in actually creating games than playing [...]

Yesterday the February edition of php|architect came out. I always look forward upon the new release every month, but even more so this month since it features an article about “Public Key Encryption” I’ve written for php|a. It’s more or less a written version of my public key authentication 101 talk and consists of not [...]

So yesterday I’ve finally received my Arduino Mega. If you know me, you know I’m not even capable (or allowed) to handle a screwdriver, let alone something even more complicated things like transistors, resistors etc..  However, with the help of some friends over on the #pfz channel on freenode to create the schematics, I’ve made [...]

Memcache is a pretty well-known system inside the web-community and for a good reason. It’s fast, flexible, lightweight and it looks like installing memcache on your servers automatically increases your website speed tenfold or more. Ok, so that’s a bit over the top, but still: having a good caching-strategy in place can help your website/application. [...]

For the readers who get the Aaron Sorkin reference in the title, do not be alarmed: this will NOT be my final blog post, just the last of the season. One year ago I’ve decided to do some (active) blogging about all tech related things I encounter in both my professional as my private life [...]

Even though most of my work is done on Linux systems, my laptop and home-systems are installed with Microsoft’s Windows. Even though I don’t want that OS anywhere even remotely near my servers, I think it still is the best system for day to day use. All the software I need is on there, I’m [...]

A lot of people are telling me to write some posts because I apparently have interesting stuff to say once in a while. This is the place I have picked out to do so. Since I don’t have a single area of expertise (or one could say, I’m an expert in ALL area’s :)), this [...]