Since June this year I started at work developing in the open source web application framework Grails . In the past I developed some websites in object oriented PHP in combination with templates in Smarty. Gained experience in handling quite common things like forms/JS, uploads, usermanagement, simple fancy stuff, user friendly URL’s via mod_rewrite et [...]
10Aug09
Grails programming
13Jun09
Multimedia living room
Two weeks ago we decided that we should look for a new television, besides looking for new houses. I did some research and found out that the Samsung UE32B7000 32″ LED LCD television seems to be what we needed. We didn’t want a 37 or 40 inch screen, because it’d be too much an eye-catcher [...]
When I was at my parents house I found an at least fifteen year old (original) box containing my first ISA 8-bit soundcard which I bought from my neighbour for about 90 guilders, somewhere in 1993. It also came with two five watt mini-speakers (not on the photos). The first thing I did was play Wolfenstein [...]
At least, I didn’t know about the Mellotron before last week. A lot of well known bands like The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Rolling Stones, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers etc. have used this device in one or more recordings. The Mellotron is a sort of organ with a bunch of [...]