Monthly Archives: July 2006

Passed the ‘Java 5 New Language Features’ JBB exam

Posted on July 29, 2006 by peter

Just passed the ‘Java 5 New Language Features’ exam on java blackbelt. Exams are becoming expensive! Costed me 12 piggies… But good to exercise java 5 stuff. Although the questions are good they are a bit easier (mostly due to … Continue reading →

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Java for the ladies

Posted on July 26, 2006 by peter

My wife doesn’t really like coding, she can find her way around HTML, CSS en some Javascript… but only if I really don’t feel like doing it for her. Can’t blame her, she is a designer. She does however like … Continue reading →

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IG Syntax Hiliter

Posted on July 25, 2006 by peter

Today I talked to arjan about the wordpress setup used for the company blog. I welcome the addition of the blog for sharing knowlegde with the community. One thing I noticed was the well looking syntax… Arjan told me this … Continue reading →

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Named pipes

Posted on July 23, 2006 by peter

Last friday the guy behind the twinview setup on the desk in front of me tipped me on named pipes. Bash uses named pipes in a really neat way. When you enclose a command in parenthesis, the command is actually … Continue reading →

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Sjoerd goes ubuntu!

Posted on July 22, 2006 by peter

In the weeks just before Sjoerd was born I ordered the geekiest thing I ever ordered in my entire live: the ubuntu creeper. I ordered the smallest size, but it took Sjoerd 8 months, 1 week and 5 days to … Continue reading →

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Header

Posted on July 15, 2006 by peter

While looking at the pictures I took while cooking some shrimps on my BBQ I discovered a wonderfull close-up, which I used in the header above… Not really shure if it will stay on for long, but I think it … Continue reading →

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CX-310-055

Posted on July 11, 2006 by peter

Today the mailman brought me my voucher to attend the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam. After three years of saying “I’ll take it as soon as I have spare time” I finally decided to just pick a date…

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Visit by Slemper

Posted on July 9, 2006 by peter

Yesterday Maarten (aka Slemper) finally came to visit Sjoerd! A good reason to try out my new BBQ. Maarten is one of the few people I actually know by person (we made lots of music together during our first years … Continue reading →

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Browser shots

Posted on July 7, 2006 by peter

Testing your website for browser compatibility is a tedious job. Most projects don’t have budget to test on to many browsers. A good tool to at least have an idea of how a pages looks in the different browsers is … Continue reading →

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Fun with XMØDMÂP

Posted on July 4, 2006 by peter

A colleguea of mine noticed me struggling with testing unicode support for the current application. I actually never knew a decent way to enter all those pesky (ë ę ç è ñ) characters. The following xmodmap line will bind the … Continue reading →

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