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

  • Another 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 ...

  • Happy new year!

    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 ...