Brian Kennedy made a great post about his first 5 minutes on a fresh installed server.
Nest Hack with Synology NAS
The Nest thermostat is still not fully usable in Europe because it requires a USA/Canada zipcode. After some Internet searching, I found this great blog from Mot. He explains how you can manipulate the www.wunderground.com weather info requests by routing the requests the Nest makes to your own server. In this blog post I will [...]
Bol.com developer contest: Kado Iglo
Samen met Marnix en Wouter besloten we ruim een maand geleden om mee te doen met de bol.com developer contest. Met Marnix de Pixel Pimp, Wouter de Marketing God en met mij als Code King vormden we samen het Dream Team. De opdracht was om met behulp van de bol.com open API een leuke inspirerende App of website [...]
Enable slow query logging on Amazon RDS
Because you can not access the filesystem on a RDS instance you have to configure slow query logging using the RDS command-line tools. The slow query data will be stored in the slow_query table in the mysql database. (Amazon FAQ)
BlackBerry HTML5 App development
Some 5/6 months ago I developed the PhoneGap App “Diabetes Dagboek” for iPhone and Android. Because it is all JavaScript, CSS and HTML5, I was also planning to release it for BlackBerry.