Articles written in 2007
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2007 at Hippo
My last working day of the year was the Friday before Christmas so my working year at Hippo is over now. A lot has happened in my second year as developer for Hippo. I have built 3 websites on my own thanks to the Hippo Project Wizard. I worked on a...
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Mii™
My sister Talma wrote this Sinterklaas poem for Mii™: The "surprise": my avatar and a cardboard laptop with the poem Hi, this is me my name is Jashii The founder of Mii™ Some time ago I was boring me so that I went to my familii and you know what I...
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Running Hippo CMS in Leopard
After buying my new iMac I was curious how easy it was to get Hippo CMS running in Leopard (MacOS X 10.5). Well, it was very easy. I downloaded the latest stable releases of Hippo CMS and Hippo Repository, typed from the terminal sh bin/fortress.sh...
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Fon Wifi at home
I had no Wifi in my house. No problem if you only use one desktop pc. From time to time I bring my work laptop to home. My Wii has built in Wifi, Ethernet is optional. So it was time to buy a Wifi router. Johan was frequently talking about Fon and...
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Looking back at the Cocoon GetTogether
When I look to the right I see the lights of Rome. The plane just left Fiumicino and is flying back to Amsterdam. From chaos and last minute crisis management back to the over-organized northern Europe. From pizza and pasta back to a cheese sandwich....
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What happens in Rome…
The weather is lovely, the food and wine are great and the espresso is keeping me awake. But these were (not) the real reasons I am in Rome. After five Cocoon GetTogethers in the lower countries the Italians decided to organize one. They found a...
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My first steps with Cocoon 2.2
Better late than never is maybe the best description of what I did this morning. Cocoon 2.2 is about to be released but apart from Andrew Savory’s presentation at the ApacheCon I had never seen it running. I finally finished my running projects so I...
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Hippo Community Apps released!
Today we have released a new version of the Hippo Community Apps. A lot of work has been done in the rewrite of the Newsletter manager and its user interface. This makes the Hippo Community Apps an open source plug in for Hippo CMS to manage mailings...
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Cocoon 2.2 at the GetTogether
Cocoon 2.2 is about to be released and I’m going to try to build a website with it. It shouldn’t be rocket science, but I’m curious to see how hard or how easy it will be. At Hippo we have spent a lot of effort in creating a Project Wizard so if I...
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Speech recognition: computer vs human 0-1
My Saturday newspaper wasn’t delivered today so I called the customer service. Someone decided that speech recognition would improve the speed of helping irritated customers. My irritation only raised, not lowered because of the speech confusion. I...
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Wii @ Hippo
Being an employee at Hippo usually means working hard on projects. Being an employee at Hippo also means having fun from time to time. Not only during lunch time when we have good food and funny discussions or on Friday afternoon when the the cold...
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Cocoon GetTogether 2007
It’s official now. The Cocoon GetTogether (GT) will take place on October 3-5 in Rome. Last year I attended my first GT in Amsterdam, the city I sort of grew up. I’ve been in Rome before and the city is worth seeing again. The first day is for the...
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Hippo Community Apps
Writing a blog seems so easy. Just write about what’s going on in your life, at work or what you read in the newspaper or on the internet. While making this entry I found out that writing about your work on the company weblog is more difficult than a...