http://www.cdegroot.com/blog Everything and the kitchen sink Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:22:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yeah. I know. This is the umptieth article on this topic. But this one is mine, ok? I'm busy with a redesign of the site. One of the things is that I want to be more flexible in redesigning the site so I started looking for boxes (with or without rounded ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2008/02/18/css-dont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/ Well, the OLPC project finally has some production hardware to show. And - frankly, it gets me more drooling than yet another sleek Apple design. It's quirky (that always scores brownie points with me), it's cool (what is cooler than connecting kids), and running a simulation under VMware shows something ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/11/14/one-laptop-per-child-available/ 1. Do not show people designs in the pub While I was doing that, someone passed a basket of chicken wings over my keyboard. Nothing bad, except for the fact that the bowl with sauce in the basked wasn't level and thus leaked over the wings and, through the basket, on ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/08/10/how-not-to-treat-a-notebook-keyboard/ Just a quick post - we're still looking for very skilled developers to join our teams in Amsterdam and Emmeloord. Look at our local jobs page for details. It's a great team, we've got some very fun challenges to chew on in the coming time, and you really can do ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/08/10/hiring/ In PHPDBUnit - Testing DB interaction with PHPUnit - Digital Sandwich, Mike Lively announces a port of Java's DBUnit to PHP. I gave a short(ish) reply on the blog but after posting it I realized I wanted to expand on the topic a bit :). Let me start by quoting ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/24/testing-db-interaction/ At our office, I thought it'd be a nice challenge to run a computer Go tournament - individuals could submit their computer Go program, and the best program's author gets a big prize and gets to explain how he did it (sorry, only male hackers around so far). Apart from ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/19/cdegrootcom-goes-go/ Take a cucumber, some tomatos, and a capsicum from the fridge (the veggies must be cold). Go to your garden/balcony[1] and cut a nice handful of herbs (basil, thyme, coriander/cilantro and marjoran formed my catch). Cut the lot, add olive oil, balsamico, a bit of honey or sugar and some ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/19/quick-herby-gazpacho/ One of the podcasts I subscribe to is The Agile Toolkit by Bob Payne. It mostly consists of him interviewing interesting people at conferences, and invariably I pick up interesting snippets of thought and/or knowledge. Last weeks' podcast contains a presentation by Pollyana Pixton, Veep of the Agile Project Leadership ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/19/lean-stuff/ I seems that Flickr has been blocked in China. Well, let's see whether I can manage to get the same honour. I just checked Google Analytics, and I get a decent amount of visitors from China. Always happy to keep public officials occupied, let's see whether me posting an ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/12/flickr-blocked-in-china/ A colleague pointed out this article, reporting on Linus Torvalds giving a talk at some search engine shop about Git, "his" source code management system. Always interested in something better than CVS/SVN, and a spoiled brat with the various distributed systems available under Smalltalk (like Monticello), I looked at Git ... http://www.cdegroot.com/blog/2007/06/05/linus-on-git/