Mostly for my recollection I’ve made a list of the DevDays presenations I attended this year. I’ve tried to add some links to e.g. homepages, blogs and twitter accounts to each speaker Trends and future directions in programming languages Anders Hejlsberg Inside Modern Javascript Scott Allen http://twitter.com/odetocode http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/ Reverse Engineering, van code naar kunst Felienne [...]
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A Yahoo Pipe to add hyperlinks to your Twitter favorites
I often use to favor certain tweets in order to read the links in them at a later moment. To do so I added the RSS feed of my Twitter Favorites to NetNewsWire. Unfortunately the items in the RSS feed consist of plain text linking to the corresponding status page on Twitter. Some time ago [...]
How to remove a Google Chrome extension on Mac OS X
After downloading a .crx file, Google Chrome installs the extension into a randomly generated directory in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions and registers it in its Preferences file. To remove an extension Close Google Chrome Open ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences in a text editor Search for the extension and write down its id Remove it from the settings element Go [...]
Direct links to all DevDays’09 videos
I’ve created a list of direct links to the videos taken at the DevDays’09 in The Hague. The list was created by parsing the devdays session timeline. Unfortunately Silverlight is needed to watch the videos, and many videos are still not uploaded Thursday The Azure Services Platform: A Perspective The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective [...]
Introducing www.sofinummer.com
In the first days of january Dreamhost ran a promotion where one could get two years of hosting for about 20 dollars on which I acted. As part of this package came a free one year .com registration. I used it to registrer www.sofinummer.com on which I intended to implement a tiny web application that [...]
How to create a md5sum of a partial part of a file
At home I have a NAS that holds all my media files. Next to residing on my NAS these files are also backed up to dvd. To be able to move these files around while also changing their filenames I needed an way to fingerprint these files. As I only needed the fingerprint to match [...]
Restoring a corrupt iTunes library
After inserting an external hard drive yesterday, my iTunes library became corrupt. It apparently saw the external hard drive as the location of my music, something for which I indeed used the drive eons ago. After disconnecting the drive I noticed that some newly added songs would not sync to my iPhone. I reconnected the [...]
Moving a NTFS Windows XP installation to a new harddrive
This weekend I’ve been trying to move Esther her Windows XP installation from a NTFS partition to a new, larger harddrive. Initially I tried doing this using a Clonezilla live CD, by letting Clonezilla create an image of each partition (the Windows XP installation, the rescue partition, etc.) to an USB drive. Restoring the images [...]