Not long ago, the battery in my Dell XPS M1330 decided it was time to die. Apparently, I had hit the wall: my battery which would run fine for an hour and 20 minutes, just died - one day to the next. No warning signs. Nothing. What's a geek to ...
read moreDoors not to open
Extending my knowledge on SEO I was getting acquainted with some FireFox plugins (SEO for Firefox, yExplore, and SEOpen) when I happened upon the related search. Specifically, I did a related:http://plind.dk/ search on Google. The result? Hit #9 is 'Suicide: Read This First' and #10 is 'I ...
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BIG BROTHER: UK to Mandate Personal Data Storage
Seems like Maria and I managed to leave the country just in time. This is so sick it's impossible to believe, especially coming from the country of the author that gave us 1984. Seems he ended up being more right than ...
read moreComparing CMS/blog systems, part 2: CMS installation
Comparing CMS/blog systems, part 1: blog installation
In order to get to know more about the various open source CMS and blog systems out there, I've decided to fill up some hard disk space by installing a bunch of them and comparing them as I go along. I'll be detailing all my progress here with ...
read moreInfosys activity
Lately I've been working a lot on the Infosys code, so I figured I'd post some updates I've done here.
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Refactored core code:
- Turned singletons into normal classes, using static variables for shared data if needed
- Introduced exceptions instead of bool return values in many places
- Changed ...
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Beginning actionscript
Set off by a job interview I got, I've started learning actionscript. It's not something I've dealt with before apart from decompiling flash scripts to debug them. There's been some obstacles before I could really dig into it - the first being getting an actionscript compiler installed ...
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Beginning unittests
I've lately started implementing unit-tests for the BeWelcome codebase and from the get-go it's been a joy. Well, almost. Spent a little time figuring out how to get the framework working and making it accessible, but after that's it's been sweet. Just running the tests gives ...
read moreOffline mode
Lately I've been doing my share of work-on-your-way-to-work (technically it's a hobby-project, but when your hobby includes doing exactly the same as your work, it's hard to see the big difference) and this has led to some annoyance on my part. The situation: I work a bit ...
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