Visit to FOSDEM 2016

Here’s my report on visiting FOSDEM in Brussels last Saturday. The “Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting” is basically a mix between a 10.000 geeks, Free/Open Source Software projects, enterprise solutions and a sense of community descending on the Universite Libre Bruxelles (ULB) for a weekend. I really like FOSDEM for the atmosphere, interesting

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Getting webmail back home with Roundcube

Since 2007, I used the webmail from xs4all.nl and that worked quite well. I only had couple of problems with this setup. For once, after 8 years, it was getting a bit full and I couldn’t get any extra space for that particular E-mail box. Secondly, I had to trust my provider for keeping backups

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Venlo als ontwikkel hubje

Inleiding Dit artikel bestaat uit een E-mail die ik afgelopen woensdag naar de SP Venlo had verstuurd na 3.5 uur stevig doortypen. Ondertussen heeft Venlokaal ook al positief gereageerd. Mij lijkt het me handig om dit verhaal te publiceren, zodat meer mensen er over kunnen discussiëren. Het originele onderwerp bij deze Twitter-discussie ging vooral in

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Mysterious project / Interactive painting

The last couple of years I’ve posted some images about an Arduino, LEDs, lots of wires and some wooden board where everything is mounted upon on facebook. Because it was a present, the whole thing had to remain a secret.  This project is finally finished and we can give the present to my niece on

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