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Archive for January, 2011

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TVGids.nl trick – verder dan overmorgen

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/17

Een hack kun je dit niet noemen: de TVGids.nl werkt gewoon via URL‘s, dus kun je er met een simpele trick meer mee dan er via de standaard uitgebreid zoeken pagina wordt aangeboden.

Bijvoorbeeld de lijst programma’s bekijken die verder in de toekomst liggen dan overmogen.

Het gaat hierbij om de d parameter: die heeft het aantal dagen aan.

Meestal ben ik geïnteresseerd in de programma’s die ‘s avonds (t=4) worden uitgezonden op Nederlandstalige (z=1001) zenders.
De url ziet er als volgt uit: http://www.tvgids.nl/zoeken/?q=&d=2&z=1001&t=4&g=&v=0

Enkele voorbeeld URs: Read the rest of this entry »

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Wikipedia 10 turns ten – happy anniversary, be sure to donate to Wikipedia today!

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/15

Wikipedia turns 10 today.
So from this place: congratulations Wikipedia with this anniversary.

And for everyone reading this: please donate to Wikipedia today, and help celebrate this unique event.

–jeroen

via: Wikipedia 10.

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SEO guys taking over Google results: Search Filter and Stackoverflowizer Chrome extension

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/14

Over at least the last year, I keep adding more and more “site:domainname” clauses to my Google search queries because somehow content scrapers somehow rank higher in the Google results than the original content.

Some domainnames I often used because of good content:

  • stackoverflow.com
  • microsoft.com
  • wikipedia.org
  • apple.com
  • reference.com
  • …

Others too noticed the SEO guys are steadily taking over Google results: Jeff Atwood just wrote a great article on this topic (with an even greater list of comments), and there is even a Stackoverflowizer app redirecting back from the scrape sites back to the content!

The world upside down, but maybe this is some good news:
an opportunity for other search engines to fill the gap.
And it looks like they do, and Vivek Wadhwa wrote a nice article on those too.

There is an opportunity for browser extensions too, so here are some Google Chrome extensions:

Be prepared to fill your machines with some more memory as browser plugins do eat some.

–jeroen

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Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/11

Last week, Apple released OS X version 10.6.6, of which the main feature is the Mac App Store.

The about Mac OS X v10.6.6. Update document describes how to update.

In addition to the Mac App Store, this update also contains an Apple security updates: a fix for a PackageKit man-in-the-middle vulnerability.

Download: Mac OS X v10.6.6 Update (or perform an automatic download)

–jeroen

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batch file scripts to get current date and current time in sortable ISO 8601 format

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/10

ISO 8601 is a great format for date and time (and combined) values.
It allows for both interchange of information, and ease of sorting values.

Recently, I had to create some backup and logging scripts for a 3rd party turn-key installation at a client.
You know: the kind of installation where the 3rd party manages to break their own scripts, but at the mean time close the system so much, that you cannot do anything but standard batch-file scripts.

The system runs partially on a Workstation that is based on a Dutch version of Windows XP, and a server that runs an English version of Windows Server 2008.
Recipe for some twiddling in order to keep the scripts working on both systems, and not to get bitten by localization.

This answer to a StackOverflow question got me a nice head-start: it was said to work in both the English and Portugese versions of Windows.
This post is the process to get correctly function batch-files towards the end of the post.

Of course, we Dutch are persistent enough to have yet different output for the %date% pseudo variable and the date and date /t commands.
The same holds for the %time% pseudo variable and the time and time /t commands.
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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, ISO 8601, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 4 Comments »

Lode Runner – the on-line nintendo 8 version

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/07

Classic game: Lode Runner at on-line nintendo-8 emulator.

I remember the days at high-scool in the mid 80’s when I played lode runner on the Apple ][ machines, and even designed my own levels!

Boy, I wish I cload load these floppies (which I still have them!) on my PC.
This comes close, but lacks the famous “HELLO” welcome screen.
(somehow it reminds he of the “DON’T PANIC” large friendly letters on a book I read at about the same time).

–jeroen

via: Lode Runner – Play the Nintendo game Lode Runner online.

PS: need to check out  the Apple 2 GS emulator version of Lode Runner later; it needs some manual fidding to get it working in Chrome.
L8r :-)

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Bloemencorso Bollenstreek 2011 zonder muziekkorpsen #fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/06

Op dit moment zegt de site van het bloemencorso bollenstreek nog ditover het bloemencorso 2011:

Voor een extra feestelijke uitstraling wordt de stoet begeleid door muziekkorpsen.

Maar inmiddels zijn al veel muziekkorpsen gebeld door de organisatie dat dit jaar het bloemencorso bollenstreek plaats vindt zonder korpsen.

Jammer, zowel voor het publiek als de korpsen.

Het publiek kijkt elk jaar uit naar de korpsen.
En de korpsen gaan het lastig voor elkaar krijgen om voor die datum vervangende inkomsten te regelen.
Ik ben benieuwd hoe die korsen daarvoor gecompenseerd gaan worden.

Veel korpsen zouden iets met het huidige thema (Reis door Europa) kunnen doen, dus ik ben benieuwd naar de achterliggende reden.

Voor zover ik het nu kan overzien een gemiste kans.

–jeroen

via Bloemencorso Bollenstreek.

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my 2010 blog in review

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/03

Don’t you love automated stuff.
Wordpress has a helper monkey that wrote me an email with stats, very similar to the results below.

From the stats page, I already know that popular posts not only include Delphi (where I originally came from) but also lots of other technologies: vmware, .NET, JRE, infrastructure.
Currently I’m doing quite a bit of iPhone/iPad work, so that likely will be reflected in the results next year.

What amazes me is the most popular day: according to the helper monkey it had 1 view :-)

Don’t you love the computing business :-)

–jeroen

Helper Monkey Results

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Read the rest of this entry »

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