Archive for January, 2013
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/27
Wondering what the state of the art is now, as the article is about 9 months old. How Can I Sync My Files Without Having To Store Them Online?.
Basically I want to keep about 10 TB of data (and growing) in sync on multiple locations (server at home, server in data center, maybe some backup server somewhere else).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
Back in the days I started programming, Micro Cornucopia was a wonderful magazine, so I’m glad that BitSavers scanned a few more issues and put them online today, a week after some great PDF scans: Turbo Assembler/Debugger (1993/1994), Borland C++/Object Windows Library (1993):
They covered a lot of languages (x86 and 68k assembly, C, C++, Turbo Pascal and many more), and very interesting hardware designs.
–jeroen
via: Index of /pdf/microCornucopia.
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, C, C++, Delphi, Development, History, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal, x86 | Tagged: computer, software, technology, wonderful magazine | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
If you want to view a TreeMap of your Android device then DiskUsage – Android Apps on Google Play is a great choice.
Simple, easy to use, fast.
It showed me that my SD-Card suddenly was almost full because /sdcard/LOST.DIR contained a 2 gigabyte file full of garbage.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
Waar je nou wel en geen 130 mag rijden is voor velen een zoekplaatje, ook voor mij.
Zelfs op de weg is het vaak niet duidelijk met een oerwoud aan borden en onderborden.
Ook on-line is er eigenlijk niet heel veel nuttige informatie te vinden, onderstaand is wat ik heb gevonden.
Veel plezier ermee (:
Samenvatting:
- in de randstad mag je vrijwel nergens 130, zeker niet overdag
- buiten de randstad liggen de grootste stukken 130 in het noorden (kop van Noord-Holland; Flevoland, Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, met uitzondering van een fiks deel A28)

En de links:
Helaas zijn de JPEG kaarten slecht, die hadden PNG moeten zijn, maar ja, ze zijn verminkt met JPEG artefacten want veel web editors hebben geen oog voor beeld kwaliteit.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/26
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.
It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.
Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.
Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.
They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.
So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Below are some ideal replacements, as I always loose track of my tiny iPod Shuffle charger dongle.
It looks like an ideal solution for my Becker Mexico Casette, when combined with this:
The long cable is far easier not to loose (:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/24
Very distracting: 404.
Thanks Julian (I just found out you also own a Dutch domain jmbk.nl/) for pointing to it (boy, some unproductive days ahead) and the cheat (in your browser, Open the JavaScript console, then paste and run the cheat code).
Thanks Romain for developing it.
When you read through his java script code files, remember that these french-english translations:
- etat == state
- tombe == fall
- paraOpen == opened parachute
- mort == dead
- flocon == flake
- taille == size
- vitesse == speed
- écrase == crash
- marche == walk
- neige == snow
--jeroen
via: Développeur Web sur Lille (59), Romain Brasier.
Posted in Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: cheat code, french english translations, java script code, julian, software, technology, unproductive days | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/24
During code reviews, I often see people do things like this:
if (!Directory.Exists(directoryPath))
Directory.CreateDirectory(directoryPath);
or this:
DirectoryInfo directoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo(directoryPath);
if (!directoryInfo.Exists)
directoryInfo.Create();
You don’t need the if statements here. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/23
This is the first of a series of upcoming interviews on Technical Debt. Very insightful!
Ward Cunningham & Capers Jones Technical Debt Interview.
Apart from the transcript, there is also the video and the past Expert Interviews.
–jeroen
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