Bijdrage in Sargasso’s zoektocht naar het ‘Slechtste Idee der Lage Landen Year 2008′. Begin 2009 wordt de SILLY 2008 toegekend en symbolisch uitgereikt. De gemeente Amsterdam is per direct gestopt met het opkopen van panden op de Wallen om de bestemming ervan te wijzigingen. Burgem...

Fonera 2.0 Smart Router Connect Devices | Business 2.0 Press - The La Fonera 2.0 is a new smart wireless internet router that will let you connect a plethora of devices to access the internet from the router easily, anything from a printer, to hard drives, laptops, mp3 players, to other USB devices ...

Twitter Search API doesn't have a Java interface (yet) unfortunately, it's simply a web based query: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=netbeans Above is what you'd type in the browser to get a query result, again in the browser. Here's what the result will look like in NetBeans IDE, once I fin...

As I wrote quite a while ago, I set up a RAID5 with three IDE disks at home, which I'm using as backup (yes, I know that RAID != backup) and storage space. A few days ago, the RAID was put to a real-life test for the first time, as one of the disks died. Here's what that looks like in dmesg: raid5: ...

Ik moest er even voor in de corporate-wiki (en mijn mailbox) duiken, maar in een “klad” van afgelopen zomer vond ik de mailwisseling tussen collega Bas en ondergetekende. Ons gespreksonderwerp? “Zou het niet leuk zijn om tweets uit de geschiedenis samen te stellen?”.  En toe...

Neocon poster child Phil Valentine slings shite in this Sunday morning’s Tennessean Opinion section. From the Tennessean: Expecting people who come to live and work in America to speak English is not an act of racism. It’s an act of preserving unity. We only need look north to QuebecR...

The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning. One of t...

The public available tool "ClassCloning" has received a significant rewrite. The clone now happens in a single composite step (so undo should be atomic). And it duplicates the package locations of the constituent pieces. There's also a new special form of Clone that shows up in the class menu only w...

Karol Harezlak, Toni Epple, and I spent the last two days with Jacek Sroka and his group of students from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw, delivering the NetBeans Platform Certified Training. Here's the whole group at the end of the training: (I'm n...

Hard drive issues: Frequently when I attempt to open a folder on my Windows Vista partition I will have to wait 5 seconds or so for the drive to spin up (I hear it). Is there some way I can fix my cache or otherwise set up the drive so that it doesn't need to spin up every time I access files on my ...