Yet another thing for the Photography Gadget Wish List: Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets | Photo Rumors.
–jeroen
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Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets | Photo Rumors
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/13
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Gear Keeper – Retractable Gear Attachment Systems
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/19
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Happy 20th anniversary ThinkPad
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Wow, it feels like yesterday, but on the 5th of October 1992, the ThinkPad 700C saw the light.
My ThinkPad start was in 2000 with a ThinkPad A20p. After that, I almost exclusively used ThinkPad laptops ever since (with the exception of Apple specific equipment: I have been using MacBook Airs):
–jeroen
via ThinkPad – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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My Delphi conferences this fall: DelphiTage.de, ITDevCon.it, no EKON (entwickler-konferenz.de)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
While scheduling this year’s projects, it was clear that it would become impossible to have the summer holiday in the summer (last year was also outside, as we fulfilled Nicolette’s dream: visit the Antarctic region).
So we moved this year’s holiday to early November, hoping that would be outside the Fall conference season.
Alas, EKON (Entwickler-Konferenz.de), this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, moved themselves to November, so this will be the first EKON ever that I won’t attend (out of 3 or 4 people that never missed one). Sorry guys I will miss the great speakers, sessions and workshops (:
I am going to speak on two other European Delphi conferences though:
- Saturday September 22nd 2012 at DelphiTage.de in Heidelberg, Germany.
They have a great nice of speakers with an interesting program of sessions on Saturday, and workshops today and Friday.
My session on “Operator Overloading in Delphi” will be most likely in German (the schedule says English, but there are few non-German speaking attendees). - Thursday/Friday Ocober 25th/26th 2012 at the ITDevCon.it in Verona, Italy.
An even bigger lineup of speakers, and many sessions in English.
Since I don’t speak Italian, and they attract more foreign visitors than DelphiTage.de, my sessions will be in English.
ITDevCon.it is still preparing their site, but the links will be here:
– Unit Testing with Delphi
– Tips and Tricks and choosing the right tools in your Delphi Eco System
– Hidden Gems of the Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record Helpers
I’m really looking forward meeting the attendees, speakers and organizations there. Conferences are always a lot of fun and a great way for me of learning new things.
--jeroen
via:
- EKON 16 – Die Entwickler Konferenz für Delphi & More..
- Delphi-Tage 2012.
- ITDevCon – Home.
- Conferences, seminars and other public appearances « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.
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Foto’s KatwijkBinse Truckrun 2012 tijdens doorkomst Sassenheim op van 12 augustus 2012 (set on Flickr)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/24
Vorig weekeinde heb ik foto’s gemaakt van de KatwijkBinse Truckrun 2012 tijdens de doorkomst in Sassenheim.
De foto’s zijn genomen op de Wilhelminalaan vlakbij het gemeentehuis.
Helaas her en der wat onderbelicht – ik was uitgeput door de hitte en niet zo helder die dag.
Volgende keer moet ik met tegenlicht iets meer opletten (:
Oorspronkelijke route: www.oranjeverenigingkatwijk.nl/index.php?p=22&sub=36
–jeroen
via: 20120818 KatwijkBinse Truckrun 2012 tijdens doorkomst Sassenheim – a set on Flickr.
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Blog or: Your words are wasted – Scott Hanselman
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/19
Wise words. If you don’t blog and don’t own your content, your content will be wasted sooner or later.
My content is important to me because of the main reason I write a blog: so I can find back and link to things that I think are important.
For that the content must be searchable (which many so called social networks aren’t) and each post has a permanent address.
Repeating the message across social networks probably makes me more than a broadcaster than a true social networker, but hey: that’s already way better than I used to be in the past.
–jeroen
via: Your words are wasted – Scott Hanselman.
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A few nice PDFs on fonts and font designer handwriting
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/10
In my early software developer years, I have been into scaleable fonts, PostScript and PDF very much.
Over the years, I kept an eye on that, and recently I found a few nice PDFs about fonts and designer handwriting:
- An Alphabet Book by Ben Fry, an expert in data visualization. There is some great other stuff on his personal web site.
- Handwritten Typographers showing the handwriting of some famous typographers. There are very few good handwriting fonts, and in between the lines, that PDF shows you why.
–jeroen
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Twee goede behulpzame zaken met vakkennis in Amsterdam: Muco Electronica en Modelbouw, Meijer IJzerwaren
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/27
Ik had wat spullen aan electronica en ijzerwaren nodig, en onderstaande zaken hebben me uitstekend geholpen.
Ze zijn beide niet groot, maar dat is juist hun kracht: ze weten alles van wat ze verkopen, geven juist advies en hebben vriendelijke bediening.
Daarnaast hebben ze beide naast hun winkel, ook een webshop.
Allereerst Meijer IJzerwaren. Read the rest of this entry »
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Small follow-up on “Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind”
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/24
a quick follow up:
- the Contacts database is more than half a gigabyte, with about 3500 contacts
- even though I had no running apps, data storage space was steadily decreasing till less than half a megabyte
- I have disabled all of the accounts sync features
- I have uninstalled the LinkedIn and FaceBook apps
- I have turned off WiFi, Bluetooth and Data connection (so it cannot sync, unless over USB)
- I have moved a couple of application from memory to SD card
- I am trying to export the various portions of the contacts DB to VCF on the SD card like described here
- a few people have contacted me to assist. Thanks!
Boy I wish I had shell access to this device.
Being able to do simple things like “du / -s | less” or “df” would be soo nice.
Will follow up with more results when I have them.
–jeroen
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Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/23
It seems LinkedIn doesn’t react to my tweet for help, so maybe you can provide me (paid) with a custom build of Contact Remover Plus.
This is my problem: https://twitter.com/jpluimers/status/225625536976793600
The LinkedIn Android app has created dozens of LinkedIn links and photo links to many of my contacts.
This renders many functions on my phone unusable:
- loading the native People app takes minutes
- Contacs cannot be synced my Google account any more
- making a backup fails
- I cannot edit contacts in the Android People app any more
- calling a phone number usually takes more than 30 seconds, often more than a minute
- etc.
I tried to count this for one particular contact with the “Contact Remover” App: His contact has so many pages of photos and LinkedIn links that I cannot count them any more. They are at least dozens, probably more than 100 of each.
I’m using an HTC Sensation phone with a regular Android 4 firmware.
With Android development, I haven’t don’t anything yet with the Contacts API yet, and don’t have the time to do so in short term.
I’m willing to pay for an App that:
- removes all LinkedIn links for all contacts
- removes all LinkedIn photos for all contacts
Anyone?
–jeroen
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