Jeroens blog

About 10 months ago I moved to Gent (see blog post), and stayed at facilities provided by the university. Now that the school year is over, and I’m not a student any more, I have to move again. I’m getting my own studio in the Zebrastraat, which is where my mom currently lives. i’m staying at her place for about 2 weeks until my studio’s contract starts. Read as: free food and no dishes -> more programming time

Some pictures of me moving, taken with my new HTC desire <3:

My old setup, stripped down already for moving.

My printer, which I was hoping might just appear at it’s destination due to uncertainty, but no such luck.

My new, temporary, setup @ my moms place.

Obviously, my final setup at my own studio will be over 9000 times more awesome :d

I’m just back from Arrrrcamp Gent 2009. Arrrr stands for “About Ruby, Rails, Radiant and Rum”, and is obviously about the programming language Ruby and 2 of it’s most popular web frameworks. This years edition took place right in front of my door, in the Zebrastraat, Gent. I followed 2 of the main presentations, and 4 visitor presentations, in essence similar to lightning talks.

The most interesting talk for me was about JRuby, an implementation of Ruby I’m considering to learn and use. I also gained a lot more insights in how Rails works, and into the more general Ruby community. Some other very interesting things I wasn’t really aware of, like GIT, the real-time web and push technology where also mentioned in the talks.

Today I held a presentation about my 2 MediaWiki extension, Maps and Semantic Maps, titled Semantic Mapping with MediaWiki at the Zebrastraat in Gent. Although quite a few of the people that registered to attend didn’t show up, the presentation went well, and I’m confident I won’t have any problems with the one I’ll be giving at SMW Camp 2009. The presentation lasted for about an hour. You can get the used powerpoint presentation (.pptx) here.

Some photo’s from the presentation:

The previous 2 days I haven’t been on-line cause I moved home from Hulst, The Netherlands, to Gent, Belgium. My mom now lives at the zebrarstraat, where I will also stay regularly. I’m actually amazed that I’m still alive, and my mom didn’t kill anyone with the moving truck.

In a few weeks I’ll also move my stuff over to some social home of the university, where I will stay during the school year. I’m going to attempt to make it the place with highest concentration of pc stuff in the whole city