Author Archives: Eelke

WAT

Extremely funny. For programmers, that is. Via @berkes. Go to the original article »

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Changing a user’s password in OpenX 2.8

The user management of OpenX is a little confusing if you are used to other systems. There is a blog-post about the user system on the OpenX-blog giving a good overview. One aspect that they seem to have forgotten is dat users may want to change their password. A “I forgot my password” link is [...]

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No more multi-language

So you may see a few weird menu items, blog posts and/or categories. This is because I disabled the WPML (multi-language) plugin. Recently, they went commercial and since then (or thereabouts) I’ve had trouble updating. Then, my server was hacked. I am not in the least way implying this was due to WPML, but the [...]

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Lego MindStorms digital clock

I can’t wait until my kid will be old enough to play with Lego (OK, so that may be slightly premature, considering we’re due in april). Maybe I shouldn’t look for excuses and just get some. This stuff is so cool. Incidentally, the numbers are black on white. Believe it or not, I took a [...]

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Piccies of 2011 holiday

I warned you this blog would be about anything I like. So just a quick post to say I’ve put my holiday pictures up on Flickr.

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Finding number of Drupal-nodes created per hour in a single query

For a customer I’ve been running an import of old content into a Drupal installation and I got the feeling that the process seemed to run slower and slower. We say “meten is weten” in Dutch (“measuring is knowing”), so I wondered if it was possible to write a single SQL query to find out [...]

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Video: Getting Started with Apache Solr

None of this Drupalified “there’s a module for that” stuff. This is hard core, direct talking to Solr

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Wall Street Journal: What Part of ‘Mini’ Did You Not Grasp, BMW?

This reviewer from the Wall Street Journal puts into words what has been my opinion about the Mini Countryman for a while. It’s great my dad still gets to drive a Mini because of it, it’s a great drive, I might even consider it myself if I was really pressed for space. But… We’d never [...]

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Paul Irish: 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

Apparently, I am late to the game, but this is a really interesting video. Edit: Not to mention that this Paul Irish guy is the good kind of crazy. Mothereffing awesome! Paul Irish : 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source from yayQuery on Vimeo.

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Awesome, old-school book-style iPad cases

I’ve seen this a while ago and ran across it again just now via Twitter: DodoCase. These are beautiful iPad (and Kindle) cases that really breathe old-school. Not “dead tree” silliness “old school”, but real beautiful craftsmanship Old School. I’m still on the fence whether to get one because up till now I’ve used my [...]

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