This is just a short announcement on my Blog to let people know I’ve been busy wrapping ZeroMQ (or ZMQ) for BlitzMax. The result of this a new module called htbaapub.zmq. It’s available from the Maximus website, meaning you can install it using Maximus. If you rather fetch the Git repository that’s possible as well. [...]

Today my mom brought home a Hondo II HDLP-2B, a Les Paul model. I’ve always wanted a Les Paul and am happy I finally own one now. It’s not in a usable state at the moment and as you can see from the picture it’s extremely dirty. I’ve never really seen a guitar that dirty [...]

Earlier today I released Maximus 1.1.1. Maximus is a BlitzMax module manager. With Maximus it’s possible to easily install and update BlitzMax modules which are provided by 3rd party module developers. Version 1.1.1 improves the usability for the GUI users. If maximus-gui can’t find your BMXPATH it will now present you with a directory dialog in [...]

To everyone that takes the time to visit my blog I’d like to wish to a happy new year! Lets hope 2012 won’t be the end of the world !

Just like last years review I’m now doing a review of 2011. With my big decision late 2010 of going back to school to get my bachelors degree I had planned on 2011 to be a much better year than 2010 was. For most of it this has been true, but it hasn’t been without struggle [...]

Earlier this year I posted about which languages I planned on learning in 2011. A few months later I posted about my progress. Now that 2011 almost has come to an end it’s time to review and see if I actually met any of those goals. How exciting. I had listed 4 programming languages I [...]

Just a quick reminder when installing BlitzMax on a 64-bit installation of any Ubuntu flavor. Always install ia32-libs or you won’t be able to execute programs compiled by BlitzMax, even though the required shared libraries are available (not actually true, as these are the 64-bit libraries). Installing this package makes sure you’ll be able to run them. [...]

I’m really liking GNOME 3 with the default GNOME Shell. I first tried it with Fedora 16, but that wasn’t a huge success. Now I’m running it under Ubuntu 11.10 and so far it’s been very pleasant. What did bug me though was that workspaces seem to only affect my primary screen. I use a [...]

If you want to enable line-in playback in Ubuntu 11.10 (and previous versions as well) you’ve got to change a setting in alsamixer. By default line-in playback is muted so you won’t hear whatever device is connected on it. In my case it’s my Xbox 360. Luckily this setting can be changed very easily. Open [...]

A nice and free open source VPN Client for Linux (and Windows) is Shrew Soft VPN Client. It supports IPSec which is just what I needed. With Ubuntu you can easily install it with sudo apt-get install ike. But with Ubuntu 11.10 (Xubuntu as well, same packages of course) installing ike this way won’t give you [...]