I had been running OS X Snow Leopard, released on August 28th, 2009, relatively happily for many years and never saw the need to upgrade to newer incarnations of Apple's operating system. With Snow Leopard Apple focussed on under the hood changes and not so much on end user ...
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Last night I attended the Python Users Netherlands (PUN) Meeting hosted by Nelen & Schuurmans in Utrecht. This must have been the third or fourth time I attended a PUN Meeting. Each time I'm struck by the small size of the Python community in The Netherlands. I do realize not ...
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I have been writing a private (password protected) blog for family and friends on Tumblr for almost half a year and it suddenly freaked me out that Tumblr had all my carefully written blog posts. What if they lost it all, what if they went out of business, etc? Shortly ...
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For quite some time I have wanted to self-host my blog. However I did not feel like administering a dynamic system, such as Wordpress, that is in constant need of patches and upgrades. Hence a static blog generator was an obvious choice. As a Python developer I have a slight ...
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My Logitech Squeezebox Duet has been given me problems for as long as I have had it. Internet radio plays just fine. However my own music collection only plays with intermittent interruptions. As my music collection is all in Apple Lossless format and the Logitech Player only supports the audio ...
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Currently I’m working on my third web based project that uses PostgreSQL as its backend. Two of these projects were/are being developed under OS X. Installing PostgreSQL under OS X is a breeze when one uses MacPorts. However I have seen more than one developer being confused about ...
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Last December Apple introduced the OS X 10.5.6 update. With it a serious regression for users of the Dvorak Simplified keyboard layout. This regression broke many keyboard shortcuts under Carbon based applications. A number of bug reports by different users were raised with Apple and an active thread ...
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I think I have found a solution to the serious regression with regards to Dvorak keyboard shortcuts in Carbon based applications that Apple introduced with the OS X 10.5.6 update. This weekend I might follow up with a more thorough write up. For now just the solution will ...
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Almost two weeks after the release of the OS X 10.5.6 update Apple still hasn’t provided a fix for the serious regression with regards to Dvorak keyboard shortcuts in Carbon based applications. Worse they haven’t even indicated that they’re working on it or provided a ...
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Tried to find a workaround for the nasty Dvorak keyboard mapping bug introduced by Apple with their 10.5.6 update of OS X. I had the idea that if I could create a keyboard mapping for Dvorak myself, this might ‘trick’ OS X accepting the proper keyboard shortcuts for ...
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This evening I installed the PyDev plugin for Eclipse to write a little Python code. Seemed to go well until I noticed that some of my keyboard shortcuts didn’t work anymore in Eclipse. Most notably copy and paste (CMD-C and CMD-V). As this was working before I figured the ...
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This year I attended Devoxx; the largest Java conference in Europe. I had high expectations as I previously had heard many good things about JavaPolis (Devoxx’ former name). However after three days of attending presentations I returned home with mixed feelings. First the good.
A conference of this ...
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Being a contractor I have to sent my customers an invoice every month. With regards to payment terms I generally settle on a pretty standard 30 day credit period. However sometimes the customer and I settle on a slightly different credit period. Regardless of the credit period I always have ...
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There’s a lot of incorrect information on the web and even in published books on how to implement Java’s equals method. Ivan Memruk in his blog post The equals/instanceof pitfall describes this issue nicely. There is however a small error in his post; what he calls the ...
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More people unhappy with Leopard’s quality. The announcement of Snow Leopard is encouraging were it not for its requirement of an Intel processor. I guess Leopard 10.5, in all its lack of quality, will be the last major release for my iMac G5.
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This happens when I archive an IMAP mailbox from Apple Mail as an mbox and then reimport it again under a new account:
Process: Mail [318] Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail Identifier: com.apple.mail Version: 3.3 (924) Build Info: Mail-9240000~1 Code Type: PPC (Native) Parent ...read more
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With my imminent move of house I plan to switch from Internet provider as well as I have hinted at in my blog post New vs. Existing Customers. The downside to such a switch is that I’ll be losing my long held email address in the process. Fortunately Google ...
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For the past six years I have enjoyed the excellent quality and service of my ADSL provider InterNLnet. My previous Internet provider, UPC, was outright horrible. Connections dropped, sometimes I had no connection at all. Clueless customer service representatives that took forever to get a hold of. And administratively it ...
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