Since I keep forgetting my passwords: My new, one and only PGP key at the moment: key-id: 0x23C1768B fingerprint: 7011 3BD7 9207 32D3 ABBC C64E 90FB BC74 23C1 768B

Lots of progress in work department lately. Our team at OSSO is growing and we are working on a new website. This time one that should actually be good. We are also preparing to a special open source sub-site where we will list our current open source projects. And as an addition we have a [...]

NN-Open is currently organizing a congress for policy makers in the (semi)public sector. The congress is at 27 november 2008 in the Martiniplaza in Groningen. The congress is organized in the light of the actionplan “Nederland Open in Verbinding” (The Netherlands Open in Connection) to support the policy makers in adapting open source and open [...]

We use Lighttpd a lot these days to offload our Apache2 servers. More specific we use Lighttpd to serve all the static content (images, stylesheets, javascript files and such). Since one of our customers wanted a clear view I did some performance testing. I used siege with 500 concurrent connections with a list of urls [...]

One of the websites we develop at OSSO, deaandeelhouder.nl, a project by ABM Online Solutions, has blog functionality available since a week. So I decided to open a little side-blog there in Dutch. Since there is so much going on in the financial markets these days it should not be hard to find material for [...]

I was quite busy lately, in December we (OSSO) moved office to the “Media centrale” in Groningen and at the same time I had enough developments in my personal life to keep me well occupied. Besides the move of office we also expanded our services quite a bit. Software development became a bigger part of [...]

I’ve not been making too much noise lately. However I’m still alive. Most of my living time goes to (the increasingly popular) working. But there are some activities going on in the “this might be interesting for other people” category. Management framework I started working on a management framework together with Kim Chee Leong. It [...]

Yesterday I went to LinuxWorld, Utrecht. Me, Nils, Peter and Kim drove to Utrecht from Groningen. It started really bad, and I think in general it was quite crappy, especially because of the overpowered sales army. Open source innovation, community and just cool stuff were hard to find. The seminar about Desktop Linux started really [...]

Today I was in “de spits”. A dutch newspaper mostly found in the public transportation areas (similar to Metro). A small part of the article is about our company and its me on the picture. Sneaked in our company logo and the Ubuntu logo on the computer screen. The digital version can be found here: [...]

We already moved in last april but last week they finally finished up the building just in time for the official opening. Because of the attention for the incubator who manages our office building I also had two interviews last week. One for the University (RUG) newspaper (UK) and another one for “de spits”. The [...]