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2008
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2008
- Batch resize images on Ubuntu Found this thread on how to batch resize images: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170862 For horizontal conversion: for i in `ls`; do convert -resize 1600 $i hresized_$i; done For vertical…
- De Rechterhand der Huisvrouw (Dutch) Toevallig kwam ik op deze site uit: De Rechterhand der Huisvrouw . Met een aantal handige huishoud tips uit de jaren 1915-1920. BEWAREN EN VERSHOUDEN VAN LEVENSMIDDELEN. 1. Levensmiddelen mag men…
- XAMPP control panel error on Ubuntu When trying to lauch the xamp control panel today, I got the following error: File "xampp-control-panel.py", line 21, in import gtk File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",…
- Zuurdesembrood (Dutch) Quote of the day: "Oud brood is niet hard. Geen brood, dat is hard. Lekker brood smaakt naar vroeger, niet naar gisteren." "Old bread isn't tough. No bread, that's tough" "Tasty bread tastes like old…
- Delete files from your iTunes library (javascript) I found out yesterday that, when you delete files from your iTunes library, they are not deleted physically from your hard drive. This is the case on Windows machines when you define a separate…
- From whistling to buddhism Today I had a few moments to spare and I wanted to add a "how to learn to whistle" to my blog. I recalled I once found a site that explained different ways of doing it. I first found a forum, which…
- Nifty blog sites on CakePHP I've been diving into the wonderful world of CakePHP. At the office I'm starting a new internal project and I decided to do it in PHP. It is actually the first project ever I do in PHP. Since I'm…
- A unique list in Java A quick way to retrieve a unique list of items from an ArrayList Source: http://www.theeggeadventure.com/wikimedia/index.php/Java_Unique_List The Java collections bundled with the JDK do not provide…
- Classic ASP - UTF-8 to Cookies I spend quite some time today trying to figure out how to get UTF-8 encoded text into a cookie. It always ended up as a bunch of questionmarks. I even tried urlencoding/urldecoding the values but…
- Text To Image in Coldfusion 8 I just had a quick look today to find out how hard it is to write a "text to image" in Coldfusion 8. Turns out to be very easy. As is often the case in Coldfusion. If I left everything default, I…
- Funny comics - explosm.net A colleague send me a link to explosm.net . A site by 4 different comic artists trying to make each other laugh. Some are "a bit" over the top, some wayyyyyy over but a lot of them are "spot on"! For…
- Recept voor kruidige topinamboer (Dutch) Kruidige topinamboer * 500 gr topinamboer * 1 teentje knoflook * 1 ui * 2 eetl zonnebloemolie * 3 eetl tomatenpuree * 2 dl water * 2 theel oregano * 2 theel lavas * 1 eetl tamari 1. Snijd de…
- Gracias A La Vida (Violeta Parra) lyrics with translation One of my favorites sung by Mercedes Sosa. I found the lyrics and translations online. Source: http://tracycharles.blogspot.com/2007/01/violeta-parra-concept-of-cultural.html English Gracias A La…
- Como La Cigarra (María Elena Walsh) lyrics with translation One of my favorites sung by Mercedes Sosa. I found the lyrics and translations online. Source: http://riowang.blogspot.com/2008/07/like-cicada.html English Como la cigarra - María Elena Walsh Tantas…
- Solo Le Pido A Dios (León Gieco) lyrics with translation One of my favorites sung by Mercedes Sosa. I found the lyrics and translations online. Source: http://riowang.blogspot.com/2008/07/like-cicada.html English León Gieco - Sólo le pido a Dios - Del…
- ASP Encode/Decode Functions Source: http://www.aspnut.com/reference/encoding.asp Methods for encoding and deconding text in various formats. URL Encode URL Decode HTML Encode HTML Decode Server.URLEncode Used for encoding data…
- Biscotti - Italiaanse amandelkoekjes (Dutch) Source: http://www.marionsrecepten.nl/recept.php?CAT=Taart&RID=884 Categorie: Taart Personen: 6 (2) Tijd: 60 minuten Datum: 28-03-2007 Bron: www.augurskookplek.be, recept aangepast Ingredienten 3…
- Fruittob maken (Dutch) Fruittob Bedoeling is om een aloud gebruik, dat door de opkomst van de industrialisatie in ongebruik was geraakt, in ere te herstellen. De fruittob komt tot ons uit oeroude tijden, toen elkeen nog…
- MySQL - Select things that happened yesterday SELECT * FROM events WHERE updatedate = DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), INTERVAL -1 DAY) ;
- Boomverhalen, deel 4 (Dutch) Source: http://www.boombastik.nl De oude wilg Laatst was het dan zover: kreunend gaf de oude, ruim 20 meter hoge wilg zich, na enig aandringen met een kettingzaag, over aan de zwaartekracht. De…
- Boomverhalen, deel 3 (Dutch) Source: http://www.boombastik.nl Buiten Het was helemaal niet kwaad omdat we zolang weggebleven waren. Sterker nog ik koester de groeiende overtuiging dat het al die bomen niks kan schelen of we…
- Boomverhalen, deel 2 (Dutch) Source: http://www.boombastik.nl Uiterlijk zegt niet alles Lukas keek nog één keer over zijn schouder. Achter hem lag de woeste toendra en hij kon de ruiters al op een uur afstand zien. Een grote…
- Boomverhalen, deel 1 (Dutch) Source: http://www.boombastik.nl Van bomen en de dingen die voorbij gaan Vriend Boom en ik hadden weer een gesprek. "Heb je dat ook niet af en toe", vroeg ik hem, "dat je bepaalde dingen aan jezelf…
- Worst CAPTCHAs of all time ... http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1048763/Worst-Captchas-of-All-Time
- MySQL- Prevent duplicate key constraint violations Today, I found 3 different ways in MySQL to do an insert in a table without having to check if the key exists. This is mainly used for relationships where the application doesn't care if they…
- Finding the average date in MySQL Today I had to find the average of some dates in MySQL. Took me some googling, but finally found a "bug" report here . Conclusion: use something like SELECT…
- Fun stuff I just spend half an hour hopping from blog to blog. On this one (received as a layout tip), I noticed something funny in the sidebar: a Unitarian Jihad Name. Never heard of it before, but when I…
- Coldfusion Soap using CFHTTP We just finished debugging a CF app that uses CFHTTP to communicate with a SOAP service. Finding bits and pieces of debugging tips accross the net we managed to track down the issue. The problem: It…
- Quicktime - Bad Request Error At the office, when we tried to view a streaming video using Quicktime, we all got a "Bad Request" error. This snipped solved our problem: 400 "Bad request" error. Some networks (beyond the UW's) may…
- Simplify Unit Testing for Spring Web Components Utilize Spring mock objects and Spring's extensions to the JUnit framework to simplify unit testing for Spring Web components. by Edmon Begoli There is nothing more reassuring for the software…
- Finding mime type of any file There is a nice API in java.net.URLConnection which can tell you the mime type for common file types. guessContentTypeFromName(String name) - that simply checks the extension of the file name…
- Why a blog? Why did I choose for a blog (wordpress 2.6 in this case) instead of a fully fledged CMS like Joomla or Drupal? First I thought about what I wanted. Basically I wanted a tool to store all kind of…
- People Ain't No Good Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good People just ain’t no good I think that’s well understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain’t no good We were married under cherry…
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