Google Firewall problem

Posted on 28/08/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

FireGoogle

Hihi, I talked about the GooglePlex a few months ago. Seems like the guys had a bit to much of spare time as they created a fire during a BBQ.

This picture was posted on Twitter before the firefighters even got the chance to arrive on the site. I just love the fast spreading technologies. The fire didn’t do huge damage to the building, but I guess they earned it. Who the hell is barbecuing on a Thursday afternoon anyway, shouldn’t they be in the Fitness center, the swimming pool or pool hall?

Maybe it’s just jealousy and I seriously hope nobody was injured, but they deserved it. hi hi.

I checked everybody in my office and they all seem to have a valid alibi. :-)

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Posted on 27/08/2009 by Van de Voorde Toni

Oh so true …

From xkcd

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speeding up your mysql db

Posted on 26/08/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

This is an interesting video on how to speed up your mysql db. Be sure you have an hour of free time if you want to watch this.
If you want to look for more videos on how to to tech stuff I recommend you take a look at bestechvideos

The Quick and Easy Guide to Speed Up MySQL for Web Developers from Jonathan Levin on Vimeo.

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Quartz: test a cron expression

Posted on 18/08/2009 by Van de Voorde Toni

quartz logo

quartz logo

Cron expressions in quartz can sometimes be difficult to test, especially when the cron is programmed to trigger after hours or days. Unless you want to wait that time, here is some snippet code you can use to test a cron.

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;

import org.quartz.CronExpression;

public class CronTester {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
		final String expression = "0 0 * * * ?";
        final CronExpression cronExpression = new CronExpression(expression);

        final Date nextValidDate1 = cronExpression.getNextValidTimeAfter(new Date());
        final Date nextValidDate2 = cronExpression.getNextValidTimeAfter(nextValidDate1);

        System.out.println(nextValidDate1);
        System.out.println(nextValidDate2);

	}
}

Outputs:

Tue Aug 18 14:00:00 CEST 2009
Tue Aug 18 15:00:00 CEST 2009
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html 5 experiment

Posted on 06/08/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

html5-canvas-particles2This is super cool!!!!

9Elements created a completely html page containing nothing more then Javascript and some of the tags that are created in the new HTML version.

This is really amazing as it is really the first time that I see a website that does some things I thought could only be done with Flash. I m overwhelmed with it an I suggest you take a look at it!! Be sure to look at it in an advanced browser ( Google Chrome 3.0, Safari 4 or the latest Firefox 3.5 version).

LOOK AT IT NOW

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Work with patterns and brushes

Posted on 31/07/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth
brush

Brushes and Patterns

A few of the patterns and brushes i play with are those from our friends at Brusheezy. After a few years of working with Photoshop you’ll become quite handy in working with the brush tool, but for those just started out with Photoshop, these video tutorials might be very helpful.

  • Make Your Brushes Glow
    In this photoshop tutorial video Eric shows us a simple way to create those glowing wispy lines with your photoshop brushes. Free free to comment and let us know if you know similar ways to create the same effect.
  • How to Colorize Photoshop Brushes
    This Photoshop tutorial shows you two quick and easy methods for coloring your Adobe Photoshop brushes. Please leave a comment and let us know what you think!
  • How to Create, Save & Upload Photoshop Patterns
    In this Photoshop tutorial, Eric shows us how to create photoshop patterns and upload them to Brusheezy!
  • How to Download, Install & Use Photoshop Patterns!
    Learn step by step how to Download Photoshop Patterns from Brusheezy and then install them on your computer use them for your designs!
  • How to Make Photoshop Brushes
    This helpful video will walk you through the steps you need to create your very own Photoshop Brush and then upload it to the site!
  • How to Download and Install Photoshop Brushes
    Learn how to download and install all these beautiful photoshop brushes!

Continue reading →

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The future of Web: HTML 5 by Google

Posted on 20/07/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

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The website is down

Posted on 10/07/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

This is one of the most hilarious movies about support i have ever seen.
Take ten minutes of your time and watch it, if you want more of those you can check out their website.

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new IE8 commercial

Posted on 03/07/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

I don’t think that the new commercial of IE8 is going to be shown on national television…

* update 06/07/2009 15h58: Microsoft took the add out of the air!!! :-)

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MOTB – Month of Twitter Bugs

Posted on 19/06/2009 by van Rumste Kenneth

mm_twitterThe month July is probably going to be an interesting month for everybody who is familiar with the Twitter service.

On Aviv Raff’s website you can read a new daily bug in twitter. The cool thing is that he will give Twitter 24 hours to manage the bug before posting it on his blog. This means that, if we are lucky or Twitter is unlucky, they don’t manage to fix this bug, we can try out all bugs.

I wonder if this is legal in the first place to post harmful information about a website, in this case Twitter. What they actually can do is tell the world how to get Twitter crashed or how to really annoy the developers. I know that, being a developer, it is handy to have some good testers, but the difference with a tester is that it stays confidential information. Besides some attention, Aviv Raff will not get much out of this and in that case it might be better to cooperate with Twitter and get some recognition from them.

In 2006 there was a ‘Month of the Browser Bugs’ with the same intensions but on a browser level and it seemed to be a ratter big success.

The question is: Will Twitter survive those 31 days and if they can stay one of the leading websites on the level of networking?

If there are real security issues and problems in the core of the system, I guess those bugs won’t be fixed in 24 hours. I’m not the only one thinking this, as there are on the other blogs and news sites a lot of people sharing my opinion. What do you think of this issue? Feel free to comment on this post!

Besides those thoughts it will be very pleasant for us to follow all issues and see how this case evolves…

The month July is probably going to be an interesting month for everybody who is familiar with the Twitter service.

On Aviv Raff’s website you can read a new daily bug in twitter. The cool thing is that he will give Twitter 24 hours to manage the bug before posting it on his blog. This means that, if we are lucky or Twitter is unlucky, they don’t manage to fix this bug, we can try out all bugs.

I wonder if this is legal in the first place to post harmful information about a website, in this case Twitter. What they actually can do is tell the world how to get Twitter crashed or how to really annoy the developers. I know that, being a developer, it is handy to have some good testers, but the difference with a tester is that it stays confidential information. Besides some attention, Aviv Raff will not get much out of this and in that case it might be better to cooperate with Twitter and get some recognition from them.

In 2006 there was a ‘Month of the Browser Bugs’ with the same intensions but on a browser level and it seemed to be a ratter big success.

The question is: Will Twitter survive those 31 days and if they can stay one of the leading websites on the level of networking?

If there are real security issues and problems in the core of the system, I guess those bugs won’t be fixed in 24 hours. I’m not the only one thinking this, as there are on the other blogs and news sites a lot of people sharing my opinion. What do you think of this issue? Feel free to comment on this post!

Besides those thoughts it will be very pleasant for us to follow all issues and see how this case evolves…

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