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Articles written in 2008

  • Devoxx 2008

    Hippo let me go to Devoxx, the Java developers conference formerly known as Javapolis. In this post I’ll try to cover most of what I have seen and heard and be warned. It’s the longest post I have ever written. Very early in the morning we took the...

  • Pimp your Gmail

    Hurrah, Google has introduced themes in Gmail. Now you can choose to make it look like your desk or use old school terminal style. Not really useful but fun to play with. Gmail desk theme

  • Removable magnetic media

    After 3 years my new apartment is full with stuff, so I can either move to a bigger place or clean up a bit. The first option is a bit expensive, that’s why I chose the latter. Throwing away is not always that easy. There is no undelete of the...

  • An Apple patch a day

    I wonder who does the Mac OS X patch planning. Since last week the Apple Software-update gave me patches on 4 different days. Can’t they collect their patches and release them on one day? It’s not like Apple is in a hurry (DNS bug fix). Releasing a...

  • More than 230.000 documents in Hippo Repository

    Two months ago I blogged about importing lots of data into Hippo Repository. The import was not just an experiment, it was for a real website. The website is now up and running! For performance reasons we only put the imported documents into the www...

  • Meme (me)

    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?

    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

    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

    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

    I’ve got mail

  • Importing lots of data into Hippo Repository

    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,...

  • Receive CMS news or apple pie recipes with e-Alerts

    Last week we added a new application to the Hippo Community Apps: e-Alerts. The e-Alerts service sends mails to your website visitors when content has been updated or added. These mails are generated based on interests of the visitors. Let’s suppose...

  • That’s a lot of open source software

    For my job as developer I recently used Eclipse, Subclipse, Notepad++, Maven, Maven plugins, Apache Cocoon (and 1 million other Apache projects), ROME (Atom/RSS), Xinha, Prototype and script.aculo.us just to create, compile and manage code. Image...

  • Adding a date-time picker to Hippo CMS

    One wanted, but until recently missing feature of Hippo CMS was a date and time picker. It was already possible to add a date-time field in the editor and edit the time by hand. To be honest, that was a little cheating. It sounds so perfectly simple:...

  • Configuring SSH on Vodafone UMTS

    For emergency we need to make an SSH connection to one of our servers, even in the middle of the night. Yesterday we switched to Vodafone Netherlands so I had to reconfigure the Qtek 9100. I was used to get a few text messages for the wireless...

  • Why do hippos spend most of their time in the water during sunny days?

    It’s funny to see what people were searching for when they came on my blog. Two people searched for the answer on Google and for some reason my blog is the first hit. I think it’s because they want to cool off a bit.

  • How to add YouTube video in Hippo CMS

    For anyone who has tried to add YouTube’s embed code into the Xinha What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor of Hippo CMS: Yes it’s possible to add references to YouTube, Google video or any other Flash animation. No, just copy-pasting the HTML...

  • Backing up my files

    About 10 years ago I had a tape drive to backup my files. It was very slow and didn’t fit in my later computers. I once tried to backup my files on cd’s but the number of cd’s I needed increased. On my iMac I was finally able to backup on DVD but now...

  • Date bug

    I thought that Y2K bugs had been solved about 9 years ago, but for some strange reasons Apple sends invoices from the year 117 (The date following "Ontvangstdatum"). Strange date in the invoice: 26/04/117 Update: after mailing Apple about...

  • Geek on the highway

    For some reason I immediately thought of Arjé’s XML in the fast lane. License plate starting with GE EK (geek)