Welcome to FredVos.org
Goal
This is the personal site of Fred Vos. Here you find blog entries about software developent stuff I'm experimenting with. The site also contains pictures of some trips I made.
Recent blog entries
Fajr Center for Arabic Language - How to get there
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 - In three days, on the 26th of December, the Intensive Winter Program starts at the Fajr Center for the Arabic Language in Medinet Nasr (Nasser City) in Cairo (fajr.com). For me this is my second Intensive Winter Program at Fajr. Two years ago I studied there too, at a lower level. In a small series of blogs I will provide some information for future students, because, although their teaching of ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2009/12/fajr-center-for-arabic-language-how-to.html]
Create and startup a virtual machine with KVM under (K)Ubuntu Linux 9.04
Tue, 26 May 2009 - This text describes how you can create a virtual machine with Ubuntu 8.04 server edition running under (K)Ubuntu Linux 9.04 desktop edition using kvm. There are a lot of tools to manage virtual machines under Ubuntu. ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2009/05/create-and-starup-virtual-machine-with.html]
Telex documentation online
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 - Telex is the result of a weekend project of mine. Telex can read news items from several news feeds and send the new titles to IRC channels. The software is in use for some months now and seems to work nice at one location. Most of the documentation is ready now and the software can be downloaded.See http://www.mokolo.org/telex/introduction.html for more information. ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2008/12/telex-documentation-online.html]
Markdown and tools
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 - Markdown [1] is a wiki-like text format that makes it easy to enter text in an editor. Using a translator, such text can be transformed into HTML, PDF, et cetera.To transform a markdown formatted text to HTML, the best choice under Debian or Ubuntu is package 'markdown'. I'll use it to generate HTML for future blog entries. Unfortunately 'markdown' the package, cannot produce PDF, nor can ' ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2008/11/markdown-and-tools.html]
Dependencies between Maven dependencies and Linux package dependencies
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 - IntroductionI'm working on ways to make Java software installable under Linux via packages, i.e. generate .deb-files or .rpm-files of software systems or libraries, that, if possible, respect the File Hierarchy Standard [1]. One aspect that makes generating these packages difficult, are dependencies. Using Maven [2] as the build system, every so-called 'artifact' usually depends on other ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2008/10/dependencies-between-maven-dependencies.html]
Generating Linux packages from Maven artifacts
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 - IntroductionJava applications usually provide all dependent libraries (jars) with the application. This has advantages, like having less problems getting the application to work and no problems with possibly slightly different versions of libraries. But providing all libraries with an application has disadvantages too, like numerous copies (and versions) of the same library installed on a single ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2008/10/generating-linux-packages-from-maven.html]
OpenID authentication with Spring Security
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 - This page describes an experiment with adding OpenID authentication to a web application using Spring Security. It describes OpenID a little and gives detailed instructions on how I was able to add OpenID authentication to a web application. I hope this page is useful for you. If you find any mistakes I made or if I'm not clear, please respond.OpenIDOpenID authentication makes it possible to use ... [http://blog.fredvos.org/2008/10/openid-authentication-with-spring.html]
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