Just a quick post to test this fancy new iPhone app called WordPress. Points to anybody who are able to guess what this app does!
It's been a while
Just another “I’m not dead” post.
So…yeah…I’m not dead and I can’t even use the “I’ve been busy at work” excuse, because I haven’t, not more than normally at least.
So how are things then?
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Spam spam spam spam
Aaah! The joy of blogging. Your thoughts are so important that you just need to share them with the world, so you sit down and compose your post (maybe you actually read it through after having written it). When satisfied with your Vonnegutesque/Dickesque (or whatever style you choose) marvel, you hit Publish and lean back, happy, knowing that you’ve made a difference and that from now on, the world will surely be a better place…..or, if you’re like me you know that nobody will ever give a rats arse about your thoughts and that the only one to ever read your masterpiece is…you!
But then what happens?
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Invalid duplicate class definition in Groovy
Just a quick one. I’ve just started poking around with Groovy and from time to time I’d get an error saying…and I quote:
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, /.../Error.groovy: 1: Invalid duplicate class definition of class Error :
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Language of the year
The pragmatic programmer say it, and last year I heard a talk by Jared Richardson who also said it: Learn a new programming language every year. Since I’m always keen on learning something new I thought “why not?”. The only problem is: Which language to choose?
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Confessions of a fanboy?
About a year ago my bare communication necessities were:
- Homebuild Intel Core 2 Duo based PC armed with a Ubuntu/Windows XP dual boot
- Linksys something router with 802.11n network
- Sony Ericsson z530 mobile phone
- 80gb iPod classic
Today my kit contains these parts:
- MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.6
- Apple Airport Extreme
- 16gb iPhone
- 80gb iPod classic
- Synology DS207+ NAS server
Man I’ve put a lot of money into Apple products, haven’t I? What a brainwashed, narrowminded, naive idiot I am eh? (this is where you tell me: No, you are right, Apple make great products)
How to get your contacts birthday to appear in the calendar of your iPhone
OK, so you’ve bought an iPhone and you love it (disclaimer: of course I love my family more than my iPhone). You’ve imported all your contacts from your old phone (I did it manually). Next you’ve added birthdays for all your contacts so that you will never forget their birthday again. And now you expect these birthdays to appear in the calendar of your iPhone…but they don’t!
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All work and no play makes Peter something something
Well well well. You start out with this blogging thing, write a few posts and then….nothing….radio silence…another dead blog. Poor bloke! Couldn’t cope with it. Well…no! I’ve just been on the dark side of the moon, that’s why. OK, that’s not quite the truth, although I wish it was…mmmm space!
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How to install Subversion to a DS207+
After the success with getting TimeMachine to back up to our NAS server I was eager to see if the NAS server could be used for something else, say a Subversion server for instance.
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How to get Time Machine to back up to a DS207+
Recently our little family became the happy owners of a Synology DS207+ NAS server.
After setting up and getting the basic services running (which didn’t take long…great job Synology!) I started wondering wether this new toy could be used in conjunction with Time Machine for backing up?
Surely I could not be the first person in the world to get that idea now, could I?
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