Monthly Archives: March 2006

network printing

Posted on March 21, 2006 by peter

Instead of the ‘my printer won’t work on linux’ story I actually discovered something neat today when trying to print on the HP Color Laserjet 4600. By running nmap to view to open ports on the network printer I noticed … Continue reading →

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Architects from the first half of the 20th century

Posted on March 19, 2006 by peter

Today we visited the museum of Hilversum to see the exhibition about architects of the first half of the 20th century. Really interesting to see the influences of Frank Lloyd Wright on Dutch architects like J. Wils, J.J.P. Oud, H.Th. … Continue reading →

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Accessing an MMBase cloud from spring

Posted on March 16, 2006 by peter

At the moment I’m building a couple of prototypes meant to be used as proof-of-concepts for the current project. Part of the concept I’m trying to proof is the fact that it is possible to build framework independent applications on … Continue reading →

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Roman Rumble

Posted on March 11, 2006 by peter

Stumbled upon a nice little game called Roman Rumble: I only managed to reach level 3 and get 370 points yet… but hey, the music is cool

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VPRO

Posted on March 11, 2006 by peter

The last couple of days I started working at the ‘Mediapark’ in Hilversum, which is about 10 minutes from my house by bicycle. I’ll be upgrading the 3voor12 site (mmbase) with all sorts of nice features.  The people at 3voor12 … Continue reading →

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Hairy lobster

Posted on March 8, 2006 by peter

A new crustacean (= schaaldier) that resembles a lobster has been discovered: source: cnn / bbc The decapod crustacean has very long fur along its pincers and is white in colour. It has been placed in a new family called … Continue reading →

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International attention

Posted on March 8, 2006 by peter

My weblog seems to attract people from the other side of the globe: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sakamoto_yuki Can’t really read what is written, maybe not to positive at all… but hey, I’m being noticed

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AndroMDA

Posted on March 7, 2006 by peter

The book on agile development which I bought a couple of months ago has a chapter on Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The examples featured AndroMDA. Since the moment I first read about it I knew I had to try it, … Continue reading →

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Dapper Drake & Compiz

Posted on March 6, 2006 by peter

Today I installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake, basically to see compiz / xgl working on my own laptop. Xgl is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. Compiz combines together a window manager and a composite manager … Continue reading →

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WEB Framework breakdown (screencast)

Posted on March 4, 2006 by peter

A colleague of mine (disclaimer: he is a Ruby fanatic) mailed me a link to the following video: (click the image or this link for the video) Although the movie is a bit too java-negative for my taste I found … Continue reading →

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