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Never booking with vliegtickets.nl again
When I booked my flight for the London Wicket event I thought to book with vliegtickets.nl as it seemed like a secure website—much more secure than cheapticket.nl, since they have certificate issues in my browsers (safari, firefox). So I received a message (which they forwarded from easyjet) asking me for my passport data, and … [...]
Best #songsincode
From the Friday twitter meme #songsincode:
@AlexJReid .corvette { width:1; height:1; color: red; }
@dashorst: let love=rule();
@codepo8: .clowns{float:left;} .jokers{float:right;} #me_you{position:fixed;margin:0
A new release has arrived: Dashorst 2.0
I’ve been preoccupied lately with the support of a very special personal release. July 7th 2009 our son Liam was born. He is a tiny baby (44cm, 2310 grams at delivery), but growing healthily. As any parent will attest to, it is a lot of hard but rewarding work. Even though Liam is still no [...]
Missing Maurice…
Today would have marked Maurice’s birthday, if it weren’t for that unfortunate accident almost a year ago. It is times like these when you remember the loss of a valued friend more so than normally. No more sharing of cake, taunting the additional year and celebrating life. My iCal notified me yesterday of Maurice’s upcoming [...]
Eclipse 3.4 with openjdk 6 on OS X 32-bit CoreDuo
With the invaluable help of David Green, I was able to run Eclipse on openjdk 6 on my first gen MacBook Pro (you know, those left behind by Apple, running on a 32 bit CoreDuo processor… good to know that Apple supports the early adapters).
With this script that I adapted from David’s blog I was [...]
Maven-eclipse-plugin woes fixed
There is quite some anti-mavenism going around, about plugins suddenly not working, etc. And often this is true, case in point: maven-eclipse-plugin version 2.6 botched all projects working with Wicket by being very anal about what should live in the
Cross platform exploit brought to you by Java
From Slashdot:
‘This means you can write a 100% reliable exploit in pure Java. This exploit will work on all the platforms, all the architectures and all the browsers,’ —
And the Java critics said total platform independence was impossible!
(yes I know that this is only affecting OS X Java, the quote was just too good to [...]
Downloading the internet with Maven in a new light
I have my share of complaints like everybody else about Apache Maven and one of them is that upon installation (or upgrading to a new plugin version) it starts downloading half of the available internet. Maven is constructed in a highly modular fashion, requiring lots of different, small, focused Java libraries. I’d like the distribution [...]
The sorry state of subversion support in Eclipse
Eclipse is a great IDE, but the state of subversion support is appalling. Both subclipse and subversive are buggy as hell, and I’d rather not touch either of them with a 10 feet pole.
Installing subversive is a futile exercise in “find all the update sites and correct plugin selection”. Subversive also is unable to keep [...]
Upgrade and new theme
Just upgraded Wordpress to the latest and greatest (stable version), and took the liberty of downloading and installing a new theme. I’m hoping that the new Wordpress makes the site faster and easier to maintain.
I’m trying to find a good