Earlier this week, the biggest dutch consumer organization declared that it felt not consumers but computer producers and software developers are responsible for the safety of computers worldwide. They felt virusscan programs, software writers and computer manufacturers should do more to prevent viruses.
posted on October 28, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyMy initial implementation of Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl has just been committed! Where before I only committed some small fixes to Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Socket, now I've actually committed a real contribution in the form of real, new, self-written code. Yay! 
Ken has a lot of ideas. He has 59 ideas, and seemingly just as many weblogs. Well, not really, but he has quite a list of weblogs on various topics. I am subscribed to quite a few of his weblogs by RSS, and enjoy reading just about everything. One weblog especially always has my interest, and that is FreeBizWare, Ken's weblog about open source software. Ken is able to find a lot of unknown (to me at least) open source software that is very useful, in work, but sometimes also for private use. This excellent location to discover new technology is now part of the Ufdi.net network! Welcome Ken. Good to have you aboard.
posted on October 25, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyToday, I have done my first code commit to the Zend Framework. I recently joined Shahar in the development of the Zend_Http_Client component. The first commit is nothing spectacular, just a bugfix in the existing code. My first "real" commit, with code I've actually written myself, will follow shortly, when I finish Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, the Curl adapter for the Zend_Http_Client.
posted on October 24, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyThis morning, I got the shock of my life when I opened my laptop. I was surprised enough that for some reason, the laptop was turned off, I had used it 30 minutes before that moment, and had only closed the laptop. My wife had heard a weird sound but thought it came from her PC. Unfortunately, she was wrong.
posted on October 22, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyPerformancing is "Helping bloggers succeed..." so they say. After their statistics tool, their Firefox blogging tool, and their 'Exchange' market place for paid bloggers. They have something new...
posted on October 19, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: webloggingA while ago, I announced here the download of Back2Buzzics, which was the first track I'd written in years, literally. I've not been doing nothing since then. I've actually finished yet another tune!!!!
This one is called 'Inside The Virtual Machine', is again quite housey in nature, with some bassline, dreamy strings and ... there is an amen break! 
Download now includes an mp3, by popular request
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It actually seems to work. A few months ago, I signed up for Text Link Ads, an advertising program for websites that sells simple text links for your website. The only thing you need to do is place a small piece of code on your site. And so I did for Electronic Music World.
posted on October 17, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: world
I probably don't have to explain how cool Userfriendly is, but I just had to get some attention to today's comic: read and weep
I just read on PHPDeveloper that there is a new security problem that needs urgent attention of any php developer. It's RFI, a way for evil crackers to run their code of choice on your server, exposing such information as passwords, or even enabling them to get shell access to your system and maybe become root.
posted on October 13, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyIn response to Greg's post (as I can not seem to comment to his message), and because I think this information is useful
posted on October 12, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyStarting on tuesday, I will not work for TomTom anymore. Instead, I will be working for a very nice company called Dutch Open Projects. Over the past weeks I've transferred as much knowledge as possible to my colleagues, I've either tried to solve issues myself or assigned the issues to colleagues. The result is now visible.
posted on October 6, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: personalOK, a small little teaser of the upcoming design, that still won't be of much use to you guys
Yes! Signups are open for the new CSS Reboot! I have just entered this site for the reboot. The design is nearly done, I only need to finish some small details. But I'll keep you guys in the dark for a while. I promise the colours will be completely different
Recently I have been working on a small forwarder that forwards a simple link to a server towards a non-http URL. This non-http URL launches an installed desktop application. The forwarder is necessary so that users can link to specific functionality within this application from forums. Usually, for safety reasons, forum software does not allow posting of URLs other than those that start with http://.
posted on October 3, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technologyThrough Aaron I found out about Yahoo! opening up their user authentication to third parties. The ease of having just a single log in for various sites worldwide is very userfriendly. I applaud the idea. However, not the implementation.
posted on October 1, 2006 - 0 comment(s) - tags: technology