Articles

This section contains editorial articles, tutorials, and other random ramblings, as I enjoy writing every once in a while and will post things I have written up here. Hopefully you will find some of it useful or entertaining. Feel like contributing an article or tutorial? Just get in touch with me and I will gladly host it.

Tutorials

  • Water droplets on a leaf after a storm

    Bazaar is a fairly new distributed version control system gaining wide use, especially because of it being the default VCS for Launchpad.net, a project ...

  • One of about 400 photos taken of the graduation

    I recently helped a friend of mine film and stream several university graduation ceremonies in Orlando. Most of my job entailed making sure that the ...

Research

Programming

  • This is how I'd look if I lived in the 1920s!

    I've recently discovered that MPlayer's yadif deinterlacer seems to eat a frame from the start and end of your stream, so when handling ...

  • iCal, because dates __should__ be this easy

    Handling dates in Python sucks. Full stop. There is nothing pythonic about datetime.datetime and datetime.timedelta, and using them is a real pain when ...

Travel

  • Colorful mix

    The Netherlands are known for the amazing assortment of tulips that grow in the north and are sent around the world as gifts, decorations and ...

  • San Marco square, preparing for the new years party

    This is part two (view part one) of the Venice photos, mostly during the night. Venice is especially beautiful at night, which kind of makes ...

Random

  • Don't you wish you could grow up to be just like me?

    Happy belated St. Patrick's day! Man, it was a good one, and I have to say it was all because of the ridiculous hat ...

  • Might as well give up!

    Last weekend I went to a LAN party with a few friends. Since we had to accommodate for three operating systems and mainly laptops the ...

Fine Cuisine

Soundscape

  • Bluesy riff

    Here's a quick blues riff I came up with the other day. Nothing fancy but I thought it sounded neat and is fun to ...

  • Metal riff

    Here's a fun little metal riff I came up with while staying in a hotel in Eindhoven. Tuning is drop D and I'm ...