Archive for the ‘BrnDmp’ Category

5 Things I cannot live without

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Hans de Zwart and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to write about things we cannot live without. The restriction is that the things ...

DrupalJam in 7 tweets (Awesöme?!)

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Hans de Zwart and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to write about DrupalJam 6 by commenting on 7 tweets that have a #drupaljam ...

The 6 books that had the most influence on who I am today

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Hans de Zwart and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. For this post we agreed to write about the 6 books that had the most influence on who we ...

Kodak Zi8

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

For one of my projects (bikes-r-us.nl) I'll be producing instructional videos on bike repair. That's all nice but I didn't have camera. Browsing the net for viable options I really liked the Flip. I Especially like the idea of producing a cheap good enough product, like Intel and Asus did ...

HTC Hero

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

So here we go: I finally stepped into the twentyfirst century and bought a new phone: the HTC Hero with Google Android OS. My previous set was a nokia from 1837 which allowed to make and receive calls and send the occasional SMS. I was never really interested in  all ...

Wacom Bamboo

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I recently bought a pen tablet because I was always struggling with the mouse while doing graphical editing stuff in the Gimp or Inkscape. After some research I found the Wacom Bamboo a reasonable and cheap option. When I returned from the shop I figured I'd be the whole evening editing ...

Collaboration in loosely organised distributed teams

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Since I wrote my post about the boundary between your private and professional life I reflected on my own life and work and how that post applied to it. I had to admit that, while I was enjoying my life and work, I didn't really put all the potential productivity, ...

Fresh laptop install

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Upon changing jobs you're usually confronted with choices for new hardware and, subsequently, what software to put on. Here's what I choose for my new employer Water Insight. Hardware: Dell Studio XPS 13 I like to keep my laptops small and portable. This one does just that while having plenty of computing ...

Open up

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Since we have team blog now, it's no use posting some stuff I used to post here. So, why not change the style of this blog then? Great idea Arjen! Thanks. From now on I will use this blog to reflect on my work as an open source consultant. Expect everything from business ...

Moodle theme hack

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Hacked Moodle theme, instead of echoing $menu I now echo user_login_string(). Then the navigation is never shown and users are not able to access other topics 'via the backdoor'.