Steve Jobs on startup and building something new
The below video is about “Steve Jobs building Next”, but a lot of his comments give an incredible insights into building a startup and all his challenges. To
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Get a git submodule checkout on remote
Since switching to GIT from SVN, I have to say that my “developer live” is much simpler. Especially dealing with branches, tags and “externals” (submodules)
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Yes, I know, common knowledge one would think. But we loose track sometimes, so a little reminder here and then won't hurt 🙂
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Without a doubt the JQuery library and all it's effects. Just makes it easy and straight forward to build interactive apps. Recently, I've added the “selecta
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Right, it is September 12th and Apple just released the new iPhone 5. While reading the live blogs (where is the good old live streaming?) and somehow missin
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Here is another tip how to free up memory (last weeks tip was on freeing up memory on Ubuntu ). I've a MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM and unfortunately constantly
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Right, so we all know our trusted little command, “cd”, to change directories in the DOS shell of Windows, right? Well, I was in for quite a surprise today w
Read nowFree up memory on Ubuntu
I've noticed that doing a extraction of a large archive (with tar) or moving files around the network (with scp) takes up all memory of the Ubuntu server. Ju
Read nowUse of mirror repositories for Ubuntu
Just today, the US archives for the Ubuntu repositories were down again and thus servers were not updated. Thus I set out to see if there are better methods
Read nowSelect all checkboxes with JQuery
More then once you need to select all checked checkboxes in your web application. With JQuery this is a piece of cake. The following code returns all the che
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Sometimes it happens that you have unwanted tabs, line breaks, paragraphs, etc. in a table column. With the following code snippet you can clean the value of
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In the recent months I have been following a rigorous “work plan” in order to not get distracted (read: inefficient). Sometimes I fail to follow all “my rule
Read nowSample Code for Janrain integration for CFML / ColdFusion
Here is a sample code for integration the Janrain Engage social login. This is inspired by the sample codes published over at https://github.com/janrain/Janr
Read nowThe case for an enterprise open source Product Information Management
The last couple of years, everyone who needed to manage products for a store, be it for a e-commerce site, book store or a retail store in general, has proba
Read nowInformation Overflow
Stuck in my mind, can't move hands, just starring at the screen and getting horrified what could happen if this state continues on… Fail to get inspired by p
Read nowOpenBD and MongoDB: Can't get easier then this
I'm currently working on a project that uses MongoDB , has support for MongoDB built in which makes it a snap to use for any ColdFusion developer. MongoDB's
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Unfortunately, I've had to learn a thing or two about server intrusion, .htaccess being hacked, backdoors and more in the last days. Well, one could say it i
Read nowPHP, MySQL, Wordpress installation and other strange things
I just went trough some issues with a PHP5 installation on some of our WordPress servers. To spare you of the details, why I had to do that, I simply post th
Read nowWhy Coldfusion / CFML has its place and is worth to learn it
I actually never indulge in conversations why one programming language is better then another, because what is right to you, does not automatically mean, it
Read nowCFML and Cannot run program - too many files open
Migrating one of my customers the other day, bought up an ugly error when I had to create 2000 directories on one go. The error was: While, “too many open fi
Read nowJavascript and encoding
As a developer of web applications you (should) know that your users will not always enter the data you expect in a form field. When you post the form with a
Read nowActions of a entrepreneur
I've found this and simply had to share it. This outlines a lot what an entrepreneur has to do. Have fun building businesses, I sure have 🙂
Read nowHow to search & replace in MySQL
Thinking of a way to quickly search & replace data in a MySQL column got me to this solution: With this method I was quickly able to change millions of recor
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Since MacOS X Lion (10.7.x) we are “blessed” by the general option that documents we have worked on the last time are automatically opened the next time we s
Read nowWhy cfthread in a loop is a very bad idea
I just run into an issue where one of our servers was totally bogged down when users started to download 100 or more files. See, the problem is that we had t
Read nowPrevent high CPU usage on MacOS X Lion
Since upgrading to MacOS X 10.7 Lion and its update to 10.7.1, I've have had my fan coming on a lot of times. Something I have hardly every experienced with
Read nowUbuntu 10.04 LTS server always selecting older kernel despite updates
I hit a really strange issue for some time now with one of my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS servers where, despite doing recent kernel updates (the latest is 2.6.32-33) i
Read nowPlesk 9.5 and domain is expired
Currently doing some Plesk administration and migration of a couple of servers and run into “domain is expired” errors. To be frank here, I'm very surprised
Read nowSeamless server access from MacOS X to Ubuntu with SSH public keys
When you access a server over SSH you usually get asked for a password that you trustfully type into the terminal window. But doing so is insecure for many d
Read nowMySQL: Failed to open the relay log
If you happen to see the message “Failed to open the relay log…” in your MySQL error log file (sometimes it is good to look into it once in a while) then you
Read nowLive every day to the fullest - it could be your last one
Let's be honest, we are all wrapped up with our everyday live, worrying about money, our career, our love (or not getting enough love), money, friends… you n
Read nowInstalling memcached on Ubuntu for wordpress and phpbb
As an application maintainer you always look for the best performance in your application and website. At one point in your quest for the best performance yo
Read nowCelebrating 20 years of Linux
I remember when I installed Linux the first time (many many moons ago) and it was all cryptic for me. All that starred at me, was a black screen with some st
Read nowColdfusion: How to pass struct and array in a URL
A user just asked: > I need to pass my array to a webserver. But somehow, the array passed with cfhttp throws an error. Please help You can not pass a struct
Read nowChanging the default search engine in Firefox
On a Windows machine I came upon the other day (forcefully and not intentional:-) ) I saw that the default engine was “search-results.com”. This URL was call
Read nowGreat talk about bootstrapping
Here is a great talk from Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals, on bootstrapping and getting your company up and running. Really worth seeing.
Read nowFix for running MySQL 5.5.8 under MacOS X 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard)
Oracle recently released the latest MySQL 5.5.x versions. Despite of having tones of fixes and supposedly running much faster and (finally) making InnoDB the
Read nowFun with Cron
For some of my Ubuntu Servers (10.04) the Cron jobs did not work or only sporadically executed. I've asked around, but none of my friends could explain why t
Read nowUbuntu 10.10 and grub menu
I just upgraded one my Ubuntu server from 10.04 to 10.10 (works flawlessly) and realized that I was prompted with the grub menu during a reboot. Since this i
Read nowColdfusion and invalid XML character
Today I had a “banging my head to the wall” time where I was confronted with this pesky error: “An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the elem
Read nowA solution to MySQL ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away
Having just moved quite a large installation to a MySQL database I have encountered the following error when connecting to the MySQL server: ERROR 2006 (HY00
Read nowWhere ideas come from
Steve Johnson talks on “Where ideas come from” gives a good overview how people and especially where they get their ideas from. I personally have been a long
Read nowHow behavior spreads in social networks
This talk by Nicholas Christakis given at the TED talk in Cannes is a must see for everyone who wants to know how social networks influence our behavior. Esp
Read nowFrom iPhone to Android - Samsung Galaxy i9000
Ok, so I did it. I went from my truly lovely iPhone (3G) to a Android phone. My choice is the Samsung Galaxy i9000 (some call it GT-9000). So, how is the exp
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On my way to Linux - Part One
Right, so here is the scope. I've been a MacOS X user for many years, not that I have been a fanatic one but I simply used what works best for me. In any cas
Read nowDifference between Apple and the iPhone
What's the difference between Apple and the iPhone? This is hilarious
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