She listens to She Keeps Bees
Taken at She Keeps Bees concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam. A musical discovery of the year so far for me. Some more photos (of the band self) are on my Flickr.
Back to school. Getting ready for a GMAT test. How is that Pythagorean theorem again? Google App Engine – the first experiences
A few days ago, I started to work on the corporatepoems.com website. The web is a fun pet project, an idea born somewhere in a pub after a few beers – I will write about the idea a bit later. Today, I just wanted to briefly comment on two problems which I encountered during my first steps with the App Engine.
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Exchange and Google Apps accounts on one iPod touch?
Today I set up the Google Apps for my domain yken.org. The Standard Edition of Google Apps enables some interesting applications, including Gmail and it is completely free (providing you already own the domain). The problem occurred with setting up the account on my iPod touch, with already one account set up on the device earlier, for my work.
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How that photo found me
Recently, I posted a small article on TEDxAmsterdam, on how inspiring and motivating the event was. Today, more than a week later, I still feel the motivation and drive to implement the ideas which I had in my head for long time. Nothing big, just making or changing some small things in my immediate surroundings. As if the event, where everyone was encouraged to share their personal breaktrough with the others, was that small personal breaktrough for myself.
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A 20 course diner for your brain
I had a privilege and honor to be invited to attend the TEDx event in Amsterdam last week. Although a long-time subscriber to podcast at TED website, I was curious what the character of the first-ever Dutch TEDx event would be. Open, inspiring and forward looking? Or just a chique networking event for the “lucky few” wrapped in a popular image of TED?
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Setting up mod_wsgi with XAMPP on a Mac
For a project at work I needed to create a Python app, accessible via http. I’m using a Mac with XAMPP installed at work. Being used to do this sort of work mostly in PHP, I needed to learn a few things. Here is the summary of how to make it work on the localhost.
Mac Mini (Intel) memory replacement
August 29th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Tagged as Mac
Today I decided to finally upgrade the capacity of RAM of my old trusty Mac Mini from one to two GB. The whole process was a bit more complicated than I anticipated so I decided to write a few comments here coupled with some photos. Be aware that following these steps will void your warranty and might cost you a bit of time.
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Barrie back in Amsterdam
Yesterday, I’ve seen the concert of Primal Scream in Paradiso, Amsterdam. While I was really looking forward to seeing the band for the first time, the most interesting part of the night for me was to see Barrie Cadogan, the lead singer and guitarist of a three-piece band called Little Barrie.
Barrie now tours with Primal Scream. I saw him and his band a couple of times before in Amsterdam and even ended up backstage with the band. Apart of finishing all the Heineken in the band’s fridge, we left the club with a beermat full of musical tips from Barrie.
I keep the beermat until now, to remind me of that rock’n'roll night. Primal Scream were great last night and Barrie (on the photo) rocked.
Primal Scream @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, 8 August 2009 on my Flickr
Finder: “There is no default application specified …”
February 1st, 2009 | 7 Comments | Tagged as Mac
After creating a disk image (hdiutil create) and subsequently copying the files careleslly from within the bundle folder directly into my home directory, I could not anymore access my home directory from Finder. The error I got was “There is no default application specified to open the document”. Finder was recognizing my home directory as “package”.
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Parsing the command line in Objective-C
Decision into which platform to rewrite the shell script to retrieve the stock quotes using Google API was a simple one – I would like to use Objective-C to be able to run the program on a Mac (and later hopefully on my iPod touch too). I began exploring the Objective-C only recently so I considered to be a good exercise to learn about basic Foundation classes by writing a class to parse command line arguments (instead of using the obvious getopt choice).