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Web Services Basic
2006-04-26
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Passed…. bumped my total to 56 knowledge points… now… I’ll have to wait for new exams to become stable, it’s just not possible to get a brown belt yet.

Today I replaced our US Robotics access point by a Linksys WRT54g, hopefully to get rid of all the connection problems we had before. After configuring the iBook and WinXP machine I tried to get my laptop to associate with it using dappers’ BCM43xx kernel driver. Couldn’t get it to work…
Finally I decided to get […]

After using compiz/xgl for a week (yes, you DO get used to wobbly windows and rotating cubes). I kept noticing the huge ammount of memory used by compiz/xgl… On my 1Gig system it was using arround 500MB! Since running eclipse in combination with open office and magicdraw screams for memory I decided to turn of […]

Passed my OO Intermed today, and skipped the green belt… straight on to the blue belt! Since I’ve been busy passing exams lately, I’m now only 7 knowledge points away from my brown belt… which is currently the highest achievable goal.

Today I passed the magic number of 45 knowledge points by passing the Ant basic exam. I hoped this would be sufficient to get my blue belt… but no…
So, I’ll have to wait a couple of days so I can finally pass my OO Intermed exam…. to bad.

As a kid I was (and, come to think of it I still am) intruiged by the way the archer fish hunts. The fish hunts insects and other small animals by shooting them down with a small ray of water:

Now I was pointed to this article in Nature magazine about a fish that can wriggle […]

I pointed my colleagues at the VPRO to Java Black Belt, and some of them (rob / edwin) seem to be really enjoying it. Rob is approaching my level at rampaging pace, hopefull I’ll be green belt before he manages to reach it (gotta love competition!).
So today I did the Spring Basic exam, and […]

Posting wireless now, got wireless to work using ndiswrapper
Took me a bit longer than expected, mainly caused by  lspci reporting the cards as: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306.
I tried to get stuff to work using a driver for this card, but this didn’t work. The following worked much better:

download the winxp drivers ftp://ftp.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE (almost 50 mb!?)
unzip the […]

Today my accountmanager brought me my company laptop:a full blown inspiron 5150! Allthough I’ll really miss the widescreen of my Inspiron 8500 lots of stuff to be happy about:

3.2 Ghz P4 /HT
1 Gig of ram
80 Gig hd
DVD RW
GeForce FX Go 5200
XVGA (1440×1200)

The first thing I did was wiping the disk and install Ubuntu (5.10), took […]

Today the DWR project has released version 2.0 milestone 1. The releasenotes claim the most import new feature is ‘reverse ajax’:
The biggest new feature is what we call Reverse Ajax. DWR 1.x allowed you to asynchronously call Java code from Javascript. DWR 2.0 builds on this to allow you to asynchronously call Javascript code […]