Frank's blog

The state of JSON serialization in the Rails world seems to change fast and often. A few years ba...

The past few months I’ve been fine-tuning a mail filter to reduce the amount of Jira notification...

After contributing some small build problem fixes for gitlab-ci-multi-runner and two of it’s depe...

For work we required the use of a VPN for a number of Mac OS X laptops to an OpenBSD 5.6 router. ...

For a masterless Puppet setup I use to configure my personal computers, I was in need of a way to...

A few days ago I discoved OpenBSD’s spamd(8). Apparently I’ve always confused it with SpamAssassi...

Using a trick documented here, I switched this server from Linux to OpenBSD, without a support in...

With only a few days left till the official support period of Windows XP comes to an end, I was a...

A few weeks back I purchased Pro Puppet for my Kindle (paperback version). I had been using Puppe...

When considering to build a high availability cluster based on Linux, it’s easy to find all kinds...

A lot of Ruby on Rails developers install Ruby by using RVM or rbenv. Most of the time this is be...

The author of the following link went through great lengths (literally) to make sure you understa...

The following link is a good written article about some of the differences between the BSDs (most...

Last december I switched to Feed a Fever for RSS reading. I really enjoyed it, but after I while ...

In my opinion Google Reader has become a lot less nice to work with by completely removing the sh...

Last year I switched from Gmail to Fastmail. I did this because I got fed up with the changes Goo...

A week ago I finally decided which case I wanted for my Nexus 7: Poetic Slimline Portfolio Case f...

On first sight, it doesn’t look like Nagios or Icinga can be used to monitor websites hosted on t...

For the last year, I have been working on my master project and two weeks ago I finally graduated...

I’ve been looking for a good Content Management System (CMS) the last couple of days after a coll...

I’ve always liked Dropbox, except for one thing: I don’t trust them with my data. Also, it seems ...

We just released Crawljax 1.9, the project I’m working on for my master thesis. It’s mostly a “bu...

In my last post I described how to get the Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) to work in Ubuntu 10.04 Luc...

The new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) doesn’t work in Ubuntu Lucid out-of-the-box. You need a newer ...

Everybody knows it, but nobody does it: using real secure passwords. One of the most heard reason...

The launch of pleaserobme.com received a lot more media attention than we had expected. We were o...

Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you...

I’m working on a cool project for my master thesis: Crawljax. Crawljax is a website crawler that ...

One week after I bought my Hero, I found out it is possible to install a newer radio-firmware on ...

WordPress 2.9 was just released. All in all this seems to be a great release again, including som...

A few weeks ago I bought my first smartphone: The HTC Hero. It’s been a great purchase since the ...

Feel insecure about your data? Don’t trust your harddrive anymore? Use this howto to migrate your...

Another post about that Pinnacle DVB-T stick? No, this one is about the remote! I wrote that the ...

Yesterday I decided to buy the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick (also known as Pinnacle TV Stick 72e) to watc...

Today I had some problems getting FreeNX to work on Fedora 11. FreeNX is a VNC-like system that h...

After my last post about KVM, somebody emailed me, asking how I use KVM’s serial console in combi...

A few days ago I stumbled upon the new Google “Let’s make the web faster”-page. I found some usef...

This post is just for the sake of documenting this.

I’ve been playing with Cherokee (the light-weight web server) for a while now. I really like the ...

Google just announced the public availability of the Google Analytics API. This is great news, be...

A friend/collegea of mine had a really cool idea about c-style comments. C-style comments are mul...

Today I configured Cacti and SNMP after I saw the graphs of a friend. He had graphs for Postfix, ...

I’ve been testing Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now and after using it for a day or two, my memor...

Yesterday, I discovered a great way to improve the speed of your webmail client. Two friends of m...

I finally got the DD-WRT firmware working on my Fonera 2100. I had been trying to get it up and r...

Welcome to my brand new weblog! In the future this will be the place where I post articles about ...