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Here's an update of the post about the size tracking of the Drupal 7 issue queue I made more than a month ago. January has been a pretty fruitful month for Drupal core development: we hit the point were the critical D7 issue queue halved in size. It reached its …

If you want to profile a Python application, you can get some basic functionality with the cProfile and pstats modules, as described in the Python Profilers documentation. After some curious experimenting, I discovered that the pstats module provides a handy interactive mode. To my surprising, I didn't found any substantial …

Some notes I made on DrupalCamp Ghent 2009 on 11 and 12 december. Mainly for my own reference, so please don't read any further.

Kristof De Jaeger presented his Display Suite module. He showed how it can be used for "theming" a node through an UI. Looks very interesting.

Kristof …

Since May 2009, I'm monitoring the Drupal 7 issue queue sizes. I use a cron job in Python that goes out four times a day to drupal.org to scrape the issue queue sizes mentioned in the "contributor links" block.

The idea is to see if the time series can …

Inkscape and the Gimp are trusty tools in my daily tool box for various vector and bitmap image editing. Being open source applications, they have firm roots in the Linux world, but luckily they are also available for Windows and Mac OS X. No wonder I have them installed on …

In a previous post I listed some options for audio data manipulation (conversion of format, sample rate, bitrate, trimming, etc), with SoX, MPlayer and FFmpeg. The obvious question is now: which one is best?

The obvious answer is: it depends. Several factors play a role in defining "the best": what …

In my day job, I regularly have to convert/transcode/re-encode audio data from one format to another. Because I typically have to do this in batch jobs, I'm mostly dealing with command line tools (on Linux) like Lame, SoX (Sound eXchange), MPlayer and FFmpeg. Having a cheat sheet of …

When using default LaTeX styles, you get a rather small text width. This is for a very good reason: readability. However, when you want to add an image, figure or table, this width can be a bit limiting. If you naively add an image (or table) that is wider than …

I spend a lot of time on the (bash) command line in (Linux and OS x) and it's always good for productivity to have your favorite set of shortcuts, aliases, perferences, predefined (environment) variables and such at your fingertips. You know, all the stuff that lives in .bashrc, .profile, .vimrc …

In front of the place I work, Ghent University is constructing a new building with two large auditoria and office space, called "Het Ufo" (Universiteitsforum). Being in the digital age, there was of course a webcam pointing at the construction site. Since 21 September 2007, I had a cron job …