Hacking and Hiking in Mexico

My name is John Bokma, and this is my personal web site and blog. I am a freelance Perl programmer, born in the Netherlands, but currently living with my wife Esmeralda and our children Alice and Adam in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Latest Blog Entries

• 01/13 A cloudy day in a canyon
• 01/02 Happy 2012
• 11/01 Installing Nokia's Qt SDK on Ubuntu
• 09/01 Books and Relearning C++
• 08/08 Staged Mexican tree frog photos
• 07/22 A better Firefox through customization
• 07/18 Making Flash and Java work in Firefox
• 07/12 Timeless Yello
• 07/09 Native 64-bit µTorrent client for Linux
• 07/04 Installing Apache FOP and Saxon-HE
• 06/29 Exporting Org to PDF and SSH time outs
• 06/25 To Barranca Grande and back again
• 06/24 Bookshelves and installing software
• 06/08 Backup each MySQL database to a separate file bash script