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Free JavaRebel license

2008-07-17T11:48:00.003+02:00

ZeroTurnaround offers a free JavaRebel license for a limited time. Go to http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/ and hope the link is still there! JavaRebel allows you to hotreplace classfiles, even when method signatures differ.

NetBeans the best IDE for RoR

2008-04-16T14:00:00.002+02:00

I'm an IDE junky. I like productivity. So far all IDEs for Ruby on Rails have been crappy. Since a few weeks I've been using NetBeans, and it is the best by far. That is why I wanted to do a post about it. But lifeonrails has beaten me by 6 months ;) One thing he forgot to mention was CTRL + SHIFT + A to switch from controller <-> view

Logitech diNovo Mini Review

2008-04-15T12:27:00.003+02:00

Hi guys. I'm reviewing the Logitech diNovo Mini today. The diNovoMini is a small wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse combination perfect for HTPCs and the PS3. It acts just like a normal keyboard and mouse so it should be compatible with any device that supports a usb or bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard. A bluetooth usb dongle is provided. First of all the diNovo Mini is SMALL. I'd say it's

Google App Engine

2008-04-08T10:14:00.002+02:00

I just discovered that google has released a preview of Google App Engine. What it basically does, is allow you to create webapplications in python and let it scale on the google cloud. They have a data store + sql-like query language (GQL). I'm going to digg ;) in to it soon, to see what it's like. Unfortunately they don't have a ruby or java framework. But I assume they do allow for django, or

Singularity (C# / .NET OS) source released

2008-03-04T22:00:00.003+01:00

Microsoft has released the source of Singularity, an operating system bulit in C#. Link for the source code on codeplex Some videos on channel9 about singularity for those wanting to see it in action: Singularity: A research OS written in C# Singularity Revisited Singularity III: Revenge of the SIP Singularity IV: Return of the UI In short: The os is pretty cool, and does some compile time

Deferred debug logging

2008-02-22T11:49:00.004+01:00

This is not RoR specific or log4j specific. This is just something that'd be really nice. And I'll implement it soon in RoR... In production, you don't want tons of logging. If something goes wrong, you wish you had set the loglevel to debug, right? ;) So the idea is this: The loglevel is set to info. Someone makes a request. The logger logs everything as if it was on debug-level, but all in

Capistrano

2008-02-21T23:39:00.003+01:00

Ok.. I got this book RoR for Java Developers from my friend. While browsing through the book, I noticed capistrano, and I really want to play with that; it looks like deployment heaven :D I installed redmine, which I like, and looked at the source of both redmine and rforum. redmine is more ruby'ish, but pretty obscure sometimes. rforum is probably the way I'll start out making my apps. Java

RoR Deployment

2008-02-19T16:09:00.004+01:00

So.. I've been reading about RoR and deployment here and there. Basically it all comes down to running a mongrel for each cpu. But what if you run 40 rails apps on a single box? will that result in 160 mongrels on a quad-core? And 40*50mb = 2GB of ram? Isn't it possible to run multiple rails applications on a single mongrel? Also, I'd like to know if there is some sort of tool that will manage

Hilversumse heide

2008-02-12T19:45:00.001+01:00

Last weekend I went to the Hilversume Heide with Sanne, my gf. It didn't show up on my Garmin GPS, and I couldn't find it on google maps, but here's the spot we sat: Link on google maps, the middle bump is where we spent most of the time

Template disaster

2008-01-31T14:44:00.000+01:00

I recently changed my template to this really nice one from http://www.ilemoned.com/wordpress/wptheme-greenery. I just posted link to the A:K announcement, and noticed that my template was all crappered. Turns out photobucket traffic exceeded. I'm going to upload the images to Blogger Images in a post and make the post invisible. I don't like having theimages on another server :)

MMO Strategy For Your Cell Phone

2008-01-31T14:40:00.001+01:00

Bloomsix got dugg with Armada: Kingdoms. I hope it'll turn out to be a success.

The story of haphap.nl

2008-01-25T14:43:00.000+01:00

Hey guys (and girls ofcourse), So.. A few years ago, Maurice and I launched a dutch site where you can order food online. It's called haphap.nl . Now, we were doing some adwords, and we got some orders, but only a few per week. We had this idea about creating not only an order site, but also a whole community to talk about what you ordered, and we thought of a widget (note that this was 2004)

Still no google toolbar for firefox 3

2008-01-25T13:14:00.000+01:00

As some of you might know, firefox-3 beta-2 is out for some time now, but still there is no google toolbar for it. So, if you're listening Google, compile your toolbar :D I don't really like the new address bar (history), but it's ok. PS: Someone teach me how to blog!

Free mobile wallpaper corpping service

2008-01-25T12:54:00.000+01:00

Still only in Dutch, but here you can upload a picture, select your phone and crop a part of your picture. The result will be a perfect fitting wallpaper for your mobile phone.

Philips CD4401S/22 Review

2007-12-11T14:49:00.000+01:00

Today my new cordless phone for my home arrived. I ordered a Philips CD4401S/22 at internetwarenhuis. The reason I chose this phone is because the handsfree was supposed to be very good. My previous phone was another philips phone, but it occasionally resets for some reason since a few months. Overal it's a descent phone, although there are some things that could be better. Here are my

Awesome video about the web2.0 bubble

2007-12-05T13:57:00.000+01:00

Just found this video via http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/video/12117 It's about the web 2.0 bubble duh. Anyay. I love it :) Especially after our Silicon Valley Adventure..

StringBuffer / StringBuilder performance improvements

2007-11-22T14:30:00.000+01:00

Lately I've been thinking about some (possible) performance improvements for StringBuffer / StringBuilder: Now, SBs are designed to work with char-arrays, because they are mutable, and if you append a value, you don't need to create extra objects. In most use-cases, an SB will be used to concatenate some (String)values. Most people don't set the initialCapacity, because that requires some extra

Firefox 3 beta 1: slow resizing, and no google toolbar

2007-11-20T18:07:00.001+01:00

Well, today I installed Firefox3 . First impressions: it seems faster, but we'll see if the memory leaks / hanging threads / 100% cpu bugs are fixed :)... I don't think they are, because they'd have fixed them in FF2 by now then. One thing I really am missing is the Google Toolbar. I got used to it. I like the gmail / rss notifiers, quickfind and the US-search button. My default google search

How not to run a delivery company

2007-11-16T11:36:00.000+01:00

Ok, so I ordered a new workstation yesterday, a quadcore 6600 + 4gb ram + 500gb hdd. I chose pay at the door, because transferring from bank to bank takes 2 or 3 days (insane...) and I wanted it here so I could install and test it over the weekend. The TNT Post guy came at my house and told me: I could NOT use my atm card. I had to pay cash. I could NOT go to the atm machine (600 meters from

No postgresql for symmetricds

2007-11-14T00:01:00.000+01:00

It looks like I hadn't read enough about symds. There's no postgresql dialect yet, but I'm thinking of writing one for them. It shouldn't be too much work, and I really need it :) I'll keep y'all posted.

2007-11-13T00:22:00.000+01:00

Wow.. almost a month ago since my last post! I've been spending some time with my gf, working on a project, and on Armada. We've setup the forums at forum.bloomsix.com so feel free to register :D I just read about symmetricds.org, and it seems like it does what I want. Basically I have 2 workstations (1 desktop, 1 laptop), and a server (for production and development). Now, maintaining those

New chairs

2007-10-16T16:19:00.001+02:00

Today my chairs arrived at the store. So now I finally have a dining table with 4 chairs instead of 2 that constantly fall :D Time to play a game of magic again!

Amazing html layoutmanager

2007-10-09T15:41:00.000+02:00

Ever wanted html layout to be more like the layoutmanager structure of java? Tired of copying css hacks for liquid columns? Then check out this prototype based layout manager I can't wait to create something with it!

Amazon S3 SLA!

2007-10-09T14:10:00.000+02:00

Today I discovered that Amazon is finally providing an SLA of 99.9% availability. That means max 43 minutes downtime each month. I think this will be a something a lot of businesses will like. It's kinda hard to sell "I don't know what happens if it goes down" :) And that's what I've been reading on some mailinglists / forums / blogs too. Read more about the Amazon S3 SLA

Outback Jack or Outback Luke?

2007-08-16T12:48:00.000+02:00

I've just read the latest posts of my good friend Sander van Velzen. The project he has been working on the last couple of weeks are ending soon. I'm not really a fan of that kind of television shows, but I really enjoyed beauty and the nerd, temptation island, and I think the other one was called who wants to marry a millionaire? Usually I only like the first season Hmmm blogspot does not