Peter Vandenabeele

Check list voor zeilen

Dit is de Nederlandstalige versie van mijn check list voor het zeilen. Onderaan staat ook nog een lijstje met zaken die ik toelicht aan nieuwe mensen aan boord.

An english language version is here: check list for sailing.

1. Veiligheid/algemeen
2. Controle binnen in de kajuit
3. Voorbereiden zeilen
4. Voorbereiden van het uitvaren op motor
5. Toelichting voor nieuwe personen aan boord

Check list for sailing

This is my check list before sailing out.
Underneath is also my check list of items to explain to new people on board.

Een Nederlandstalige versie is ook beschikbaar: Check list voor zeilen

1. Security/general
2. Check inside
3. Prepare sailing on sails
4. Prepare sailing on engine
5. Explanation for new persons on board:

Program of the Ruby on Rails devroom at fosdem 2009

The program is ready for the Ruby and Rails devroom at fosdem 2009 (on Sunday 8 Feb 2009 09:00 - 17:00). It has come packed with 10 presentations (we had to reject a few abstracts to fit it all in 1 day). Last year we had 4 presentations, so interest is clearly going up. The program is available as flat text, odt and pdf.

http://vandenabeele.com/files/Ruby-Rails-fosdem-2009.txt

http://vandenabeele.com/files/Ruby-Rails-fosdem-2009.odt

http://vandenabeele.com/files/Ruby-Rails-fosdem-2009.pdf

Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on a Sony VAIO CR41Z/R next to Vista/Longhorn

Bought a Sony VAIO CR41Z/R yesterday in Fnac Leuven Belgium (999 EURO incl. VAT).
Nice machine :-)

Spent a few hours to get the _pre-installed_ Windows Vista (SP1) updated and less than 1 hour to get the Ubuntu 8.04 installed next to it.

Follow commercial ship routes (and ferries) with AIS

As I am preparing for the ROC VHF/SRC exam, I got more interested in marine electronics and safety systems. One aspect is that all new SOLAS ships over 300 gross tons since July 1, 2002 (and some other conditions as commercial passenger transport) must carry an AIS system (Automatic Identification System). This system will transmit (in channels 88A and 88B in the VHF range in GMSK, that is around 162 MHz) a signal that carries the position, course and speed of the vessel.

An open bank ?

I believe a significant cause of distrust in the current banking system is the lack of openness about the exact financial positions, withdrawals, cash reserves, other reserves etc. that banks actually have. Now that we are in the current situation, it may be best not to be too open about it to avoid panic at those banks that have severe liquidity problems, but in a more structural fashion, we might benefit seriously from a more open methodology in banking.

Trapeze

Terug van Bombannes, vlakbij Bordeaux. Een stage
Catamaran Perfection 2-3 gevolgd en voor de eerste keer trapeze gedaan op een Catamaran. Soms met 2 wanneer er volop wind was. Spijtig genoeg geen foto's beschikbaar (in het midden van het meer bij strakke wind op een Catamaran was een fototoestel niet echt aangewezen, mijn horloge ligt nu al ergens op de bodem), maar het ziet eruit zoals op deze video:

New version of allejobsinleuven.be (9 July 2008)

On July 9, 2008 I published a new version of the http://allejobsinleuven.be site with some new features:

• full text search in 700+ jobs at employers in high-tech and ICT
• search 100+ employers in high-tech and ICT in Leuven
• search in job_location: that is the location of the effective execution of the job
• first jobs outside Leuven
• semi-automatic follow-up of jobs published on the job pages of employers in the region

Workaround for an REXML bug in 1.8.6 (does not find non-namespace qualified attribute names)

I was fighting for some time with the problem that a certain type of XPath query did not work correctly in REXML Ruby 1.8.6. Specifically, this type of query

top_pattern = "//*[@id=\"content\"]"
REXML::XPath.each(xml_body,top_pattern) do |xml_entry|
...
end

did not yield any results if top_pattern selects based on attribute names. It did work when top_pattern only contained descriptions of the style:

top_pattern = "/html/body/table/tbody/tr[2]/td"

AllejobsinLeuven 2.0 => AllejobsinVlaanderen

Update: I have put the site in "sleep mode" in Sept 2008.

Below is my current vision for AllejobsinLeuven 2.0 => AllejobsinVlaanderen. I would very much appreciate your feedback, preferably as public comments below, but private comments are welcome too.

What is the problem?

I want to solve two problems for job seekers, initially focusing on the high-tech and ICT sectors:

1. while we all know there are lots of jobs available, there is currently no way to get a clean, complete list of all relevant jobs and employers in a certain area (like a "telephone directory of jobs")
2. and even when we do have a complete list, there is no organized way to know upfront (optimally before sending out the CV) how well the employer's company/management style will fit with the expectations of the job seeker.