September 22, 2004
September 15, 2004
September 14, 2004
New Mozilla releases
Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.3. I like the FindFast toolbar already.
Via Slashdot, of all places.
GMail
If you're interested, and you think I know and like you, I have some GMail accounts laying around.
Yeah, these entries are pretty lame, but it sure beats spamming everybody in my address book. Which I don't have available anyway.
September 09, 2004
How to migrate to Eclipse from ...
IBM has posted a series of articles for those shy people that aren't ready to learn a new IDE hands-on (duh):
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. IntelliJ IDEA
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. JBuilder
- Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse vs. Netbeans
How reading such large amounts of text will persuade you to use Eclipse, is beyond me (especially if you already actually tried Eclipse once), but if it does: good for you!
Via Erik
September 08, 2004
Syncing between machines
Everybody Most people seem to have issues with using multiple machines to do work on. It's nice to see that a guru is (a) having the same problems, and (b) getting to almost the same solutions as I am. I'm still not quite there yet, but I'm managing for now.
Antwerp from the sky
It's always impressive and intriguing to see the city you live and work in, from a different perspective: Antwerpen vanuit de Q-Kopter
I've no idea how long these photos will stay online, so hurry!
September 07, 2004
iPodPhone? PhoneIPod?
It is happening. As predicted. Looks like my Nokia 6600 will become redundant before its warranty period is finished.
September 06, 2004
Bicycle frustrations
Since I very strongly feel the need to vent my frustrations about the habits of car users towards bicyclists, and since I am very aware that 99,99% of the world is not interested to hear those, I will do my venting here (rss). Since cursing is so much more fun in Dutch, that's the language I'll use there.
Update: A new address already. Thanks, Vincent!
September 03, 2004
Definition purism creep
I respect Martin Fowler. I really do. But blog entries like this one make me ask this question: "what the hell are you doing?" If you make a change to a program, is it really that important to call it "optimization" or "refactoring"? Things like this are generally the result of too much belly-staring: nobody gives a shit, but you think you're pondering the Most Important Question in Life. There are more useful things to think about.
Oh, I can think of one occasion when this might be important: you're manager has read a book about XP, and wants to be hip and implements XP, but asks you to categorize the work in your timesheets between "optimization" and "refactoring". In this case, try to talk some sense into the guy. Or run, run like you've never run before.
How do you distributely manage your address book?
Many of us know the situation where they have to access relatively personal information from more than one physical location, on more than one computer, with more than one program. The joint forces of the Internet have already created several solutions to this problem. I keep my bookmarks now at del.icio.us. My code is at SourceForge. And my memory is at a blog. But one question seems to remain unsolved: where do I keep my e-mail addresses?
I have a desktop at home, with a ThunderBird email client on it. I also have a laptop, with the same email client. Occasionally, I switch the OS on either machine. However, at my work location, I use a webmail client. In addition, I have some other (unrelated) mailboxes that also only work with a browser. How can one keep all those address books synchronized? Can we think of a solution that allows you to press CTRL-K on any of them, and access the same address book? Or am I dreaming here? How do you manage your addresses?