I had a nice conversation with Ralph Meijer this afternoon; he had grabbed a very old program that I’d written — sjabber, a console-based Jabber groupchat client — because he’d been having some issues with his current client.
As Ralph explained in his blog just now, it only took a single-line modification to get it up [...]
Well, I made it to FOSDEM this morning with time to spare. Bumped into Sarah and Josette setting up the O’Reilly book stand. Dave Cross is here, as are Leon Brocard and Richard Kilmer, whom I snapped during Tim O’Reilly’s keynote “The Open Source Paradigm Shift”.
Tim’s talk was very interesting, especially coming at this stage [...]
I’ve been umming and arring over conferences this year. One that I don’t want to miss is FOSDEM - the Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting, on a weekend next month in Brussels.
FOSDEM is a great grass-roots event that is full of friendly hackers. Add a wonderful city to the mix, and what [...]