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My tools around my development tools 29 Nov 2012 | 01:46 am
The most frequent asked questions I encounter on, for example, LinkedIn start with "What is the best..". "What application is the best for doing x?" etc. And every time I comment on such a discussion...
CloudVPS object store beta introduction 27 Aug 2012 | 03:07 pm
Lately I’ve been playing around with the CloudVPS ObjectStore, which is currently in beta phase. This blogpost shows the options of this ObjectStore in a practical way and concludes with a summary of ...
Daycamp 4 Developers #4 Business 101. 7 Mar 2012 | 06:10 am
Last Saturday the fourth edition of daycamp 4 developers took place. This time’s topic was all about freelancing, entrepreneurship and taking care of your career-life-balance. Next to some familiar s...
Practical: creating a REST application with Silex 28 Feb 2012 | 12:46 am
Okay, you’ve read LornaJane’s blogpost series on REST, you’ve attended the Techademy Silex/REST workshop to hear Stefan Koopmanschap talk about Silex and Joshua Thijssen about REST, seen the post of D...
PHP SPL data structure: SplFixedArray 30 Sep 2011 | 02:51 am
PHP 5.3 introduced some new data structures. The talk of Jurriën Stutterheim on PFCongres 2011 on SPL structures and their performance triggered me to have a closer look at the performance of these st...
Using SimpleAdapter for populating simple_list_item_2 with Strings 27 Sep 2011 | 06:29 pm
I don't know it it's my searching skills which are fading or the lack of examples, but I wasn't able to find a simple example on how to use the simple_list_item_2 which is built into Android. I've use...
Custom checkboxes for CheckBoxPreferences on Android 2 Sep 2011 | 10:10 am
For an App I'm writing I need to use custom checkboxes in a PreferenceScreen. I want to use the CheckboxPreferences as it's designed for that. Many searches lead to StackOverflow, but caused me a stac...
Propel and the zero date issue 7 Jun 2011 | 11:58 pm
Today I was unpleasantly surprised by a change in behavior when upgrading Propel from version 1.5.4 to 1.6. I frequently use zero dates in MySQL ('0000-00-00') and these dates are affected by the upgr...
Your Plesk Watchdog in 2011 14 Jan 2011 | 08:55 pm
Plesk users (version 8.x up to 10.x as far as I've heared) are getting errors from the Watchdog module. Parallels is coming out with an update for this error in the future, but they can't tell when (y...
Installing packages on Synology NAS through ipkg 16 Sep 2010 | 10:01 pm
Recently I bought a Synology DS210j NAS. This is a linux-based NAS with an ARM processor. As this basically is a full linux server, there are some interesting options for geeks familiar with the comma...
