The Da Vinci Code – the movie

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May 292006
 

Yesterday, I went to see The Da Vinci Code, the movie version of the Dan Brown’s bestseller. When you’ve read the book and you liked it, the movie will be disappointing. The movie is not very close to the book, mainly to keep the movie within a reasonable length.
If you haven’t read the book, then by all means see the movie. It’s a very good movie. Tom plays a very convincing Langdon and Ian (we all know him as Gandalf) shows he can play a human part a little too well (no I won’t spoil). Jean Reno is a bit disappointing I think.

The Da Vinci Code
 Posted by at 23:12

Care2 Connect

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May 252006
 

If you don’t have your own server to run an image-gallery, you’ll have to divert to gallery-service-providers. Most of them have very limited storage if you don’t want to pay anything. Care2 Connect (currently in beta) has a gallery-service with unlimited storage. At the moment they’re hosting over 1.3 million images!
Care2 Connect runs the Gallery software, that’s how I discovered them: I’m about to upgrade my Gallery to the latest version. Gallery has a remote Java application that enables you to bulk-upload (and other things) your pictures, that’s why I choose Gallery over CopperMine.

Gallery update: done. View here.

 Posted by at 17:59

Apache RewriteRule

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May 232006
 

I just wrote my first Apache RewriteRule. Instead of redirecting every specific link from the old weblog (b2evolution) to the main page of the new one (you’re looking at it), I wanted to jump to the new location. So I rewrote the URL with Apache’s RewriteRule to the new location. You can have a try with these links:
– www.rare-it.com/b2e/blogs/switchbl8/blog.php/2006/03/.
– www.rare-it.com/b2e/blogs/switchbl8/blog.php/2005/02/22/succesfully_changed_harddisk

With my httpd.conf now containing 3 Virtual Hosts, mod_aspdotnet, Redirects, RewriteRules, mod_jk (for Laszlo, only started when I need it), what does that make me? An Apache Adept? An Apache Guru? Or just some bloke that does not like IIS? 😉

 Posted by at 23:32

Apache redirect

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May 222006
 

Because I keep track of the statistics of this weblog, and because I did switch the URL of the weblog a couple of times, I noticed that several searchengines and other hits where still trying to reach old addresses. So, I modified the Apache configuration to redirect requests for several old URL’s to at least point to something that exists. Until then, the busiest day on my weblog had 68 visitors. Yesterday had 80 visitors, today will end with 128 or 129 visitors. Wow. Who would have expected that?

Lesson learned: turn your back on old software, or try-outs, but REDIRECT!

 Posted by at 00:01

Codehaus recovering

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May 202006
 

Codehaus, currently in the news for Grails (Groovy on Rails), is recovering from the ISP move. They had an unknown ISP, that could keep up with their growing, so they switched to Contegix. Slowly all of their servers are surfacing again. Watch this space.

 Posted by at 12:36

Java EE 5 SDK

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May 122006
 

The Java EE 5 SDK is here! Please note that Sun stopped referring to it as J2EE, but now calls it Java EE. Finally.
The SDK includes the Application Server Platform Edition 9 (Glassfish).

 Posted by at 13:12

Netbeans 5.5 beta

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May 122006
 

The Netbeans team has released 5.5 as a beta to the public, so no more nightly builds to test the new features. The download is about 41 Mbyte for the IDE, or 88 MByte if you go for the Enterprise Pack (includes Glassfish, some modules and a starterkit). Unfortunately, the Enterprise Pack download is still the Early Access version, so we have to wait for that a little more.
This beta needs Java 5 (obviously), and J2SE JDK 1.5+ will do.

 Posted by at 01:16

SQL on Rails

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May 112006
 

After all the hype of Ruby on Rails (RoR), it’s time for Rails in a proper language: SQL on Rails. Released early last month, strange that I missed this one.

 Posted by at 09:49

Wink

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May 062006
 

While browsing Sun’s website to read more about Netbeans 5.5, J2EE 5 and Glassfish, I noticed that they used Winklets to demonstrate how certain things are done in Netbeans for instance. “Winklets?” you might ask. Yes, and I didn’t mean Viewlets. But if you know what Viewlets are, I don’t have to explain Winklets anymore. But to those who don’t: Winklets are small Flash-movies that are basically screen/mouse-movement-captures. Nothing new, you might say. True. But…Wink is free. Yep. Read more on their website.
Wink (or any other motioncapturing piece of software) is ideal for tutorials. Create some text that explains it in words and add a link to a Winklet so people can see what you mean.

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