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A private secure web application on the Google App Engine

Lately I have been rewriting the dashboard that I use to monitor the health of my business to a GWT application running on the Google App Engine.

New Dell Precision M6500 laptop

I have a new Dell Precision M6500 laptop. It replaces my 4 year old Dell XPS M1710.

Developing an augmented reality layer for Layar

During MobileCamp Brussels I talked about the fietsknoopunten layer for Layar I have created some time ago.

Ubuntu themes

I'm not a big fan of the new default theme in Ubuntu 10.04. It's a bit too much I-wanna-look-like-Apple IMHO.

Fortunately the bisigi project contains a couple of really nice themes that you can use instead. Check them out.

Symlinked directories disappeared from Samba share

After a recent update on my Ubuntu server some directories had disappeared from a couple of Samba shares.

Twunch app for Android

I have released an open source Twunch application for the Android platform.

Afvalkalenders.be

Earlier this year I started collecting all afvalkalenders for 2010 that people have created and shared in Google Calendar on afvalkalenders.be. Currently the site lists 43 calenders.

Slow Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron 6400

After upgrading a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 the machine was so slow it was barely usable. top was showing a load average of 7 after opening Firefox or OpenOffice.

I'm going to FOSDEM 2010

I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

ipsCA certificates expired

ipsCA, a Spanish certification authority, ended 2009 with a bang. Their root certificate expired on December 30th and they had to scramble to send all customers new SSL certificates.