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    OneNote: a hidden Microsoft Office gem started by Jo Vermeulen
    Last week I discovered Microsoft OneNote 2007, and I am (honestly) impressed. Actually, the first time I ever heard of OneNote was when I read the FAQ of InkSeine.



    Here’s part of the product description:



    Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides people one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search to […]
    Small update on face detection post started by Jo Vermeulen
    Back to the future: Smalltalk started by Jo Vermeulen
    I spend some time last weekend looking into Smalltalk again. The first time I did this was somewhere around 2004, when I played around with Ruby and discovered that it was strongly influenced by Smalltalk. Back then I watched an old video by Dan Ingalls on object-oriented programming which finally made me fully understand the […]
    Integrating Disqus with a Ruby Site started by jonnyma
    Hi Guys,

    I tried out Disqus recently really wanted to use it in a Ruby site that I have already made. I downloaded the ruby gem made by njclarke, but am pretty clueless as to how the integration works. Has anyone done this witht their own ruby projects? Could someone walk me through the integration process?

    Thanks so much,

    Jon
    Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection started by Jo Vermeulen
    I had some fun with Gary Bishop’s OpenCV Python wrapper this morning. I wanted to try out OpenCV for detecting faces using a web cam. This could be used for instance to see if someone is sitting behind his desk or not. I used Gary’s Python wrapper since I didn’t want to code in C++.

    I [...]
    Demo video of a Smalltalk environment started by Jo Vermeulen
    Just a quick update to my previous post. I can imagine that my post about the advantages of Smalltalk might be a bit abstract for people who never used it.

    So here’s a short demo video of a Solitaire game running in a Smalltalk environment. It clearly illustrates features such as full introspection (e.g. by using […]
    Switched to Mephisto started by Jo Vermeulen
    So I eventually switched over my blog to Mephisto. As I explained in my previous post, I had enough of the Typo madness. I had a brief look at Simplelog as well. It might be a nice alternative if Mephisto gives me problems as well.
    Ubuntu running Windows in VMware Player started by Jo Vermeulen
    I managed to destroy my Windows XP partition a few weeks ago while trying to resize it. Fortunately I made a backup. I decided to try to run Windows inside a virtual machine. After removing the broken NTFS partition, I reused the free space to create a new /home partition.

    I created a disk image with […]
    VibrantInk theme for Vim started by Jo Vermeulen
    I came across a blog post from John Lam, the creator of RubyCLR. He made a rudimentary Vim color scheme based on VibrantInk by Justin Palmer. VibrantInk is a color scheme for the fabulous TextMate editor, and my personal favorite.

    So I tried John’s version to make my Vim experience match up to TextMate’s […]
    Thoughts on speed reading started by Jo Vermeulen
    On Monday afternoon, I participated in a Smart Reading course together with a few colleagues. Although the basic techniques of speed reading were explained, it left me wanting to know more. Since I don’t feel like paying more than a thousand Euros for a full, three-day course, I started to look for some more information […]
    Evaluating User Interface Systems Research started by Jo Vermeulen
    Alex pointed me to Evaluating User Interface Systems Research, an article by Dan R. Olsen Jr. that was published at UIST 2007 as part of a panel discussion.

    Abstract:


    The development of user interface systems has languished with the stability of desktop computing. Future systems, however, that are off-the-desktop, nomadic or physical in nature will involve new […]
    Disqus commenting system started by Jo Vermeulen
    I am now using Disqus to handle the comments on my blog. Disqus is a new global blog commenting system. It has a lot of nice features, such as avatars, threaded conversations and global notifications. It allows you to track when a comment you posted got replied to and will in the future even support […]
    Making things talk started by Jo Vermeulen
    A few weeks ago I came across a blog post by Cati Vaucelle about Making Things Talk, the new book by Tom Igoe. The book deals with building smart, communicating things. It is built up out of specific projects and uses practical examples to explain different technologies. Tom works at NYU ITC (
    VR: after the hype started by Jo Vermeulen
    Lode wrote in his last post (amongst others) about the fact that the hype of Virtual Reality is over. This doesn’t have to be negative in my opinion. Maybe having a fresh (and more realistic?) view on virtual reality and its possible uses can help.

    As a comparison, look
    Homepage migrated started by Jo Vermeulen
    The last couple of days I have been working on a new, fresh design for my homepage. It was quite hard, since I’m far from a good designer. I have to experiment a lot before I end up with something that I really like, while Luk for example can come up with something astounding withi
    New blog, website, web host and domain started by Jo Vermeulen
    This all started when I wanted to create a new blog.

    Typo seemed impressive. However, it required Ruby on Rails, which wasn’t supported on Lumumba. I figured it would be cool to redesign my homepage with Rails as well, so that I could dynamically add content, and more tightl
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