Blog archive – page 8

• ApacheCon Maven Meetup: Eclipse IAM and Maven Release plugin

  Published on 24 Mar 2009

  Tools like Maven should make life easier for a developer, but it can be even easier. Maven is mainly a command line tool, but most developers use some kind of IDE like Eclipse to speed up development. With Eclipse IAM, Maven gets integrated into...

• Attending ApacheCon EU 2009

  Published on 23 Mar 2009

  Welcome everyone in Amsterdam for the ApacheCon EU 2009. Apologies for the typical Dutch weather, it will be raining all week. I will attend the Maven Meetup this evening and the last conference day (Friday). I’ll try to blog about it and take some...

• Switching to fibreglass

  Published on 1 Mar 2009

  This weekend I switched to XMS fibreglass for Internet, radio/TV and phone. They only charge 50 Euro per month for a 50 Mbps (up and down) internet connection, 40+ TV & 30 radio channels and a phone line. The fibreglass modem and my Fon WiFi...

• How to add the YouTube plugin in Hippo CMS 7

  Published on 13 Feb 2009

  The YouTube Template Plug-in is a very small, but cool project in the Hippo ECM forge. The plugin was created by our former intern Jeroen Tietema. With this plug-in you can easily add YouTube videos to your documents. In this blog I’ll explain how to...

• Superfast Wifi

  Published on 2 Feb 2009

  My FON Wifi router made Windows think it had a 150 Mbps connection. Pretty fast! Too bad the connection did not work and I had to reboot the FON router. Wifi connection status: 150 Mbps

• Overpriced memory

  Published on 31 Jan 2009

  Curious how much an upgrade of my iMac’s memory from 2×1 to 2×2 GB memory would cost I went to the online Apple store. Apple asks €140 for 2 GB of RAM. Thinking it would be a tiny bit overpriced I googled for other online stores and found out that...