Monthly Archives: April 2007

Flair

Posted on April 27, 2007 by peter

In the Netherlands ‘Flair’ is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun’s dictionary it will be: A self-supporting web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript Couldn’t find much about it, but they seem … Continue reading →

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Finalist wins second place in RAD contest

Posted on April 27, 2007 by peter

Finalist managed to reach the second place in the ‘Development Tools’ content using Ruby on Rails. More about this on our corporate website here (Dutch). I think this is an excellent achievement and like to congratulate Remco and Michiel on … Continue reading →

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Problems with Google personalized homepage

Posted on April 26, 2007 by peter

Today Google managed to lose all my bookmarks and most of the RSS feeds I configured on my personalized homepage. Since there is now way to backup your homepage this means they’re just lost now. I’m not the only one … Continue reading →

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Compass blues? JTeam to the rescue!?

Posted on April 25, 2007 by peter

While using Compass in the complex environment of our current project we ran into some rather nasty problems; some of the related to bugs in the Compass codebase. Currently we’ve got it all setup and running, and apart from some … Continue reading →

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OSX Keyboard speed

Posted on April 24, 2007 by peter

The most annoying ‘feature’ of my OSX system used to be the speed of the cursor when moved using the arrow keys. Not anymore… OSX seems to have a global configuration (yes, all you macheadz probably did this the first … Continue reading →

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Hello Spring!

Posted on April 24, 2007 by peter

Finally a post about the season Spring instead of the framework. Apart from the occasional stroke of pollinosis I’m really enjoying the first rays of sun (and the first SAS BBQ of the year last weekend). And since my son … Continue reading →

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Twitter

Posted on April 22, 2007 by peter

As always I’m a bit behind in actually using all this greate web 2.0 stuff. Most of my colleagues at the VPRO have been using Twitter for a while now, but I was still a bit skeptical. Erwin has a … Continue reading →

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Another step against optical media

Posted on April 11, 2007 by peter

Today our new car radio arrived. With the upcoming arrival of our new car in mind we decided to make another step in abandoning the use of CDs. Previously we’ve setup a solution for the living room using a uPNP … Continue reading →

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Busy week

Posted on April 7, 2007 by peter

What a busy week I it was! This week: I started dieting, I’ve got to loose some weight I managed to get my part in the project back on track after Arne was taken of the project I prepared (and … Continue reading →

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