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Oracle koopt Sun Microsystems

Chris R. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:56:31 +0000

Het moest me even van het hart maar ik weet nu niet of ik blij moet zijn met de overname van Sun door Oracle of dat ik er bij moet beginnen te huilen?

Door deze overname krijgt oracle niet alleen Java (en NetBeans), maar ook Solaris, VirtualBox, Open Office én MySQL in handen. Als dat geen joekel van een investering is dan weet ik het niet. Dat heeft den Larry weer goed geregeld zou ik zo zeggen. Het is ook niet zo gek dat het bestuur van Oracle de overname unaniem heeft goedgekeurd.

Ik denk en hoop dat Microsoft zich stilaan serieus zorgen begint te maken. Google blijft hun steeds een stapje (met een zevenmijls laars) voor op het internet en op het niveau van besturingssystemen beginnen de verhoudingen ook steeds meer en meer te kantelen. Er zijn steeds meer mensen die overschakelen van Windows naar Mac of een ander OS zoals Linux.

Als we de productportfolio van Sun even bekijken dan zie je al direct 4 direct concurrerende producten van Microsoft;

OpenSolaris vs WindowsServer
Java vs .NET
OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office
VirtualBox (xVM) vs VirtualPC (VirtualServer)

En wat gaat er met Open Office gebeuren? Als Oracle zijn schouders onder het project zet wordt het eens te meer een zware concurrent van Microsoft Office, want laten we eerlijk zijn, waarvoor jij en ik office gebruiken hoef je geen €600 neer te tellen, hetzelfde bereiken we met sprekend gemak ook met Open Office. Het enige wat me dan misschiens nog een beetje tegenzit in Open Office is een compleet alternatief voor Outlook. Dat Oracle daar dan maar mee begint, dan hebben ze er al één klant bij … als ze met hun fikken van MySQL af blijven tenminste

Overschakelen op ubuntu

Chris R. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:54 +0000

Terwijl Jan de overschakeling naar Mac aan het doen is heb ik thuis de beslissing genomen om op Linux, meer bepaald Ubuntu, over te schakelen.

Niet dat ik niet tevreden ben van Windows XP, er zijn de kleine frustraties van windows maar in vergelijking met Vista ben ik nog steeds zeer tevreden van XP. Maar linux lijkt me echter een zoveel betere omgeving om webontwikkeling in te doen dan Windows dus is de beslissing snel gemaakt. En extra kennis van linux is mooi meegenomen, ik kan mijn plan wel trekken via SSH maar vlot gaat toch anders, maar daar komt zeer binnekort verandering in dus

Installatie ging erg vlot, Ubuntu downloaden, op USB stick zetten en installeren is een kwestie van een kwartiertje werk. En alles werkt vlot, drivers worden herkend, netwerk en internet werken out of the box, wat wil je nog meer? Ontwikkeltools natuurlijk!

En daar komt Apt in het spel, eclipse installeren is een kwestie van de terminal open gooien en apt-get install eclipse uit te voeren en even later is eclipse klaar voor gebruik. Apt is zeker en vast de grootste meerwaarde voor Ubuntu. Daarna de Aptana plugin voor eclipse installeren en de IDE is klaar voor gebruik.

Een dev server installeren gaat even makkelijk, apt-get install apache2, daarna svn, php5, MySQL en phpmyadmin nog, een paar virtual servers aanmaken in apache en de ontwikkelomgeving is klaar.

Nu Zend framework nog downloaden en we kunnen beginnen!

Linux, i’m starting to love it

Quick tip: Create new folder shortcut in Windows XP

Chris R. — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:04:27 +0000

I’ve been looking forever for a solid solution to quickly create a new folder in Windows XP. There is the obvious ALT, F, W, F keyboard combo but that’s a little too much work for me (yes i’m lazy I know), an additional hurdle to tackle is that my PC at work runs Windows XP Dutch version so that makes for another keyboard combo, way to inconvenient. Then I came by a nice little program by Bill Lasagne (what’s in a name …) which allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to create new folders, I installed the 1.0 beta and it works flawlessly.

You can get it here: http://biglasagne.webpark.pl/projects.html

Basecamp security flaw or not?

Chris R. — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:02:48 +0000

I absolutely don’t know how much this will affect the basecamp security and if this really is an exploitable issue but a colleague of mine (Andy) just noticed today it is possible to add HTML to to-do items in basecamp.

For example if we add the following to-do item to basecamp we actually end up with a standard html button as the screenshot below shows.

Picasa beta 3 is here

Chris R. — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:36:54 +0000

Looks like the picasa beta 3 (No this isn’t Picasa 3 beta) has been set loose by Google according to this article on Digg. There is still alot of work on Picasa at it’s current state to keep up with it’s competitors like ACDSee or iView Media Pro for the professionals among us but it looks like this release is a step in the right direction. Check their readme website for more info on this beta release or download it directly below.

» Direct download Picasa 3 Beta

Slow? Some links then …

Chris R. — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:34:51 +0000

Oh boy, has it been going slow here or what? I didn’t even make the reboot, and believe me, it makes me feel terrible. I’ve been drowned in work with my new (kickass) job and several sideprojects so that is basically what kept me from posting regulary on my blog. No excuses though … here are some links to make up for it

Flock for Adobe Photoshop, Flock is one file, containing over 300 files inside. Flock contains 153 Fonts, that self install, 158 brush packs for Photoshop 7 and up, self install, and over 50 additional packs for Photoshop 7 and up. Each pack, contains about 30-40 presets, all in one file, self install. We would estimate that Flock contains over 7000 individual presets, in addition to the 150 fonts. All inone file, one download, one install.

Google Sketch-Up, Looking for a nice application to create some 3d content? Look no further since Google released SketchUp free, the free version of their recently aquired 3D modelling application. I must say SketchUp was a good application a while ago still unther their former owners, i’m curious what Google made of it.

Btw, where is Picasa 3??

Firefox hijacked Internet Explorer!

Chris R. — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:07:19 +0000

Since a few days I’ve been experiencing a very (and i can’t stress the very word enough) annoying problem. As webdesigner I have 4 webbrowsers installed and a few standalone versions of Internet Explorer. More recently I also added the IE 7 beta as a standalone exe to the list. From that moment on IE 6 started to behave strangely.

When I typed an URL in the address bar and hit enter, all of a sudden firefox launched and loaded the website I requested. Now normally I wouldn’t mind Firefox imposing itself over Internet Explorer but I want to test my websites in all browsers on my computer, not just a few of them. The odd think was that links clicked in a website didn’t act similar, they just launched normally in IE or in a new IE window.

After some latenight searching on Google I couldn’t come up with a solutions so I resorted to using my little server for testing websites in IE. Of course this wasn’t a long term solutions so last night I started searching for a solution again and guess what? IE 7 messed up!Because I didn’t install IE 7 in the normal way but hacked my way through it to run it alongside IE 6 some registry keys were entered wrong. This caused IE to launch all pages from the addressbar in Firefox. This seems to be an issue known to the IE dev team so they were kind enough to offer us the simple solution: delete a regkey.

They also stressed we should be installing the IE 7 beta the normal way. Yea right, if I’d be able to uninstall it as simply as it was installing it I would probably do so but I’m not going to install a beta product to replace a … erm … functional version. Certainly not since explorer acts as the backbone of the Windows GUI. Damn you Microsoft, do you really think I’m stupid.

Not installing IE 7 the proper way was own stupid fault, yes … but that won’t keep me from running IE 7 and IE 6 side by side. If the issue pops up again I know what to do!

Spreadfirefox not spreading firefox??

Chris R. — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:47:52 +0000

While writing the previous post I made a staggering discovery. Spreadfirefox.com, the premier site dedicated to promoting the o-so-popular alternative browser, doesn’t have a single link to the firefox homepage or a downloadlink for firefox on their homepage. They are there for marketing firefox though, they say it themselves.

As a small, non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation has very limited resources at its disposal to market Firefox to the world. SpreadFirefox was created to fill this void, and was founded on the same principles of community involvement that drive the development and testing of Firefox. We believe there is nothing that a large community of enthusiastic volunteers can’t accomplish, and this site exists to unite the community into one cohesive marketing force that even competitors with unlimited resources can’t compete with. For more information, see our original announcement.

Ok, I agree that the site is dedicated to people looking for marketing material for promoting the browser but still it’s a little silly they don’t offer a link to the product they are marketing. The site is run by several members of the core Firefox and mozilla team. Maybe they have a reason they didn’t link there but I can’t think of one really. Can you?

Firefox’s uprising

Chris R. — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:33:18 +0000

Firefox is on the road to becoming a serious threat for MSIE for the most popular browser. Recent studies by XiTi, a french buro for market research, show that Firefox now has over 20% average marketshare in Europe and 15% in the US. A good evolution i’d say, now lets only hope Microsoft gets their act together and offers a product which doesn’t cause us webdesigners hours of frustration. Cross your fingers.

Via http://www.spreadfirefox.com

Firefox ad in Dutch newspaper

Chris R. — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:46:32 +0000

It was a little unclear at some point but the people behind SteunFirefox.nl have found a way to put the money they raised to good use. The initiative is a follow up from the pagesized Firefoxad in the New York Times and a big German newpaper. Rumours were that the dutch version of this initiative didn’t raise enough money to buy a pagewide ad in a dutch national newspaper. After the rumours were confirmed by the people behind this initiative the question rose what to do with the money they collected. Now they have agreed to put a pagesized ad in Sp!ts, a free newspaper with over 1.6 million daily readers in the netherlands. They still need €600 ($728) to get to the required amount of €10.000 ($12,135) for the advertisement. I’ve already paypalled some money, why don’t you help them raise the rest of the money and make the web a better place for all of us.

Via http://tweakers.net