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Re: RussellBeattie.com - Go Obama!

Andrej — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:15:23 -0000

For those that are still undecided or who want to validate their choice here are some websites that can help you determine who you should vote for: http://beheer.stemwijzer.nl/USA2008/en/, http://www.kieskompas-usa.nl/.

Re: Why does Apple get a free ride?

Andrej — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:50:35 -0000

What difference? One is enabling people to use content they've legitimately bought under any circumstance they choose, the other is enabling people to use hardware they've legitimately bought under any circumstance they choose...

Re: As Goes the Economy, So Goes Open Source?

Andrej — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:35 -0000

My take: Most open source is not created by free labor. More here: http://www.andrejkoelewijn.com/wp/2008/10/23/op...

Re: WordPress Plugin - Textile 2.0

Andrej — Mon, 24 May 2004 03:15:27 -0000

I've activated the textile 2.0 plugin, and it works, but not for feeds (atom/rss). How do i enable it for feeds?

Re: Testing REST Services with Groovy

Andrej — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:15:47 -0000

Seems the groovyx.net....json class uses a different form of json than grails itself. The json interpreter used by the test doesn't accept the json generated by my grails controller. I get the following error:

Unquotted string 'new Date(1200092400000)'

net.sf.json.JSONException: Unquotted string 'new Date(1200092400000)'

at net.sf.json.util.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:445)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject._fromJSONTokener(JSONObject.java:1128)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject._fromString(JSONObject.java:1317)

at net.sf.json.JSONObject.fromObject(JSONObject.java:185)

at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:139)

at net.sf.json.JSONSerializer.toJSON(JSONSerializer.java:103)

at net.sf.json.groovy.JsonSlurper.parseText(JsonSlurper.java:78)

at groovyx.net.http.ParserRegistry.parseJSON(ParserRegistry.java:185)

Here's the json generated by the controller:

{"id":18,"class":"Kandidaat","aanbiedingenPerPost":false,"achternaam":"Willemsen","dossierNummer":"10","etage":"3","huisletter":"a","huisnummer":"12","inschrijfDatum":new Date(1200092400000),"kamerbehoefte":"4","postcode":"1234 ab","reacties":[],"redenAfvoer":null,"soort":"Geindiceerde","straatnaam":"Nieuwe stationsstraat","voorletters":"AB","voorvoegsel":"","woningNetNummer":"10","woonplaats":"Amsterdam"}

Any idea how to fix this?

Re: De staat van Enterprise 2.0 in Nederland? Heliview heeft het antwoord

Andrej — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:23:58 -0000

Leuk te lezen dat je mijn verhaal een van de hoogtepunten van de dag vindt. Ik heb mijn presentatie ook op de IT-eye weblog geplaatst: De echte betekenis van Web 2.0 voor uw Business.

Re: What tech couldn't you live without?

Andrej — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:13:28 -0000

The thing i can't live without on the net: http://www.windguru.cz/

Re: Oracle can’t get blogging respect

Andrej — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:14:57 -0000

http://www.it-eye.nl/weblog/2007/04/27/oracle-b...

Re: Twitter reactions to Apple’s OS update

Andrej — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:25:36 -0000

I have to agree here with scoble, something weird is going on.

If vista fails, usually other people react like: sure vista sucks, everybody knows. Or, microsoft is a bad company, or something similar.

If osx fails you get one of the following reactions from other users:
* don't blame apple, vista also has failures
* it's your fault, you're not doing it right
* it's not a problem, if you tell us what's wrong, we'll help you
* it's ok for an upgrade to fails, everybody knows you have to reinstall
* don't complain, because for most people it works (is this any different from vista/xp?)

Why not admit it: apple makes mistakes, just like microsoft. It's almost like steve jobs is the next saviour, and if you say anything bad about him or apple, it's blasphemy.

Re: Air is in my future

Andrej — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:17:26 -0000

It's just a slower (cpu and hdd), memory limited (only 2gb) macbook. Nothing too exiting. Macbook isn't that large that you really need it that thin and light. And it still doesn't have enough screen real-estate. They could put a lot more pixels on a 13inch screen.

Re: How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links

Andrej — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:26:48 -0000

Google is giving a lot back: it's giving you the ability to find information. Image the internet without being able to find information. Quite useless...

Furthermore, you can't all blame this on google. The internet itself has changed a lot.

The newspaper business has changed a lot, even without google. The barriers to entry have completely disappeared for this market: you don't need journalist or writers, just buy some news, put it on a website, and you can call yourself a newspaper.

And there's a lot more competition now: you can read newspapers from all over the world.

So, easy entry into market, little investment needed, lots of competition: this is not a market where you can earn a lot.

You actually see this in print too. In the Netherlands we have a number of free print newspapers (metro, de pers, etc). These newspapers basically just reprint canned news. And they understand nobody will pay for this, so they completely rely on ads for income.

The newspaper business just isn't a business anymore where customers will pay for the services delivered.

Re: The Fallacy Of The Link Economy

Andrej — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:17:46 -0000

So basically, what you're saying is that people don't value new stories? They don't want to read a single story, but have a quick summary of everything? So, why are newspapers trying to make money from something the customers don't want? Maybe they should focus on creating stuff that readers want, like good short pieces that summarize all the news.