Blog archive – page 10

• Meme (me)

  Published on 20 Sept 2008

  Via Jeremy: Meme (me) Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture.

• Steve, did you approve the iTunes Genius UI?

  Published on 13 Sept 2008

  Since the latest iTunes update I have the new Genius functionality. Apple finally suggests music based on what I listen to and not only what’s in my iTunes Store basket. Last.FM already did this but why use 2 apps when one can do the job? I wonder if...

• Converting a HashMap into a nested listing in Freemarker

  Published on 27 Aug 2008

  For the e-Alert we use Freemarker as templating engine. One of the new features of the next release will be a list of all subscribed categories and interests for the recipient. All subscribed categories and interests from the database are inside a...

• Open source soup

  Published on 25 Aug 2008

  My father asked me what the difference is between closed source and open source software. We were on a party surrounded with food so I used soup as a metaphor. Closed source soup is served ready to eat in a bowl at the table by a waiter. Maybe not...

• Wow

  Published on 29 Jul 2008

  I’ve got mail

• Importing lots of data into Hippo Repository

  Published on 27 Jul 2008

  As I’m writing this blog, my laptop at Hippo is working hard. It’s importing meta data from a web service into our Slide/WebDAV based Hippo Repository. At this moment the web service contains over 270,000 entries. As a first real performance test,...