Mischa Kroon

Hacking your life: Tim Ferris on a lot of things saving your time

2008-08-13T16:55:47Z

If there is one blog your should read at the moment it's the 4 hour workweek The blog is pretty diverse it covers things like how to travel better, doing more with your money while traveling. It's about personal productivity: personal outsourcing, doing things more efficiently, getting a better body, etc etc Below are some of my favorite tips tricks / information. Youtube gallery Lets just call this the teasers for the rest of the information Tim's Youtube videos (Personal) Outsourcing...(read more)

MediaFire Update: Upload changed.

2008-08-11T15:22:21Z

A while back I created a little utility to upload files to MediaFire which is a file hosting service. MediaFire supports uploading of files up to 100 MB in a free account with unlimited storage, and is in my opinion one of the best free online storage possibilities out there. It has galleries for pictures, nag free FAST downloads, sharing options, file manager the works. It now also has a paid option which has additional features. The news is that they added in a Flash uploader which makes it possible...(read more)

Back to basics: Getting started (Todolists)

2008-07-09T20:36:35Z

Prelude When your getting ready to start doing the tasks at hand you will have to start organizing the different tasks and prioritizing these tasks. The easiest way of doing this is by using a Todolist application, there are a lot of different strategies of getting more productive but most of these ways and ideas are to get organized by using todo lists. The main advantages of Todolists Support: Getting Things Done (GTD) Making it possible to plan things in a simple fashion Centralizing information...(read more)

Back to basics: Getting started (Source Control: SVN/Git)

2008-07-08T20:13:37Z

Prelude This will hopefully be the start of a series of posts / articles about the basic information/skills needed for different software development. Source Control Source control is one of the things you need to set up before starting to do the actual development. Before creating things of value it's wise to make sure that your investment is guarded. Source control is there for this need. Not only can it be used to keep your source code and files safe but it will also allow you to keep different...(read more)

IE 8 Beta is out, what do you need to know ?

2008-03-06T11:20:00Z

Highlights of new functionality included - JScript debugger . - Webslices (sort of widget extractor for websites) - Activities (extend your right click with custom menus) - HTML View (think firebug / Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar ) Other important changes - Connections per host increased this was 2 connections and will go up to 6 when a highspeed connection is detected. - Increased Javascript speed - It will break the visuals from quite a few sites and some sites (windows update amongst others...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC vs ASP.NET(Webforms) vs Ruby On Rails

2008-02-04T22:13:58Z

Introduction What is MVC MVC stands for: Model (database) Controller (business logic) View (what you see + view logic) It is used to separate the logic from a web application and other types of applications into these 3 logical parts. There are a lot of people who think this makes development easier and more maintainable. For more information on MVC click here . What is Ruby On Rails Ruby On Rails, ROR for short is the framework which took the world by storm. Or it just caused a storm, one or the...(read more)

Review: Ucertify.com - Prepkits (70-305)

2008-01-14T23:09:00Z

Introduction UPDATE: The kind folks of Ucertify.com have offered people who read this blog post with a discount you can get a 10% discount for this product using the following code: MISKRO You can download this product at: http://www.ucertify.com/exams/Microsoft/70-305.html Company Founded in 1996, uCertify is a leading provider of exam preparation solutions for certification exams of all the major IT vendors. uCertify products provide certification candidates a complete coverage of exam objectives...(read more)

Rant: Trying to work with the Nokia s60 software and their PC Suite API

2008-01-09T21:27:00Z

Nokia and it's software a .Net developers take on things. First off I would like to say that I started this quest with a good amount of confidence that I would be pleased about things on the software side of things. But each time when I look further it starts to look even worse. So let's begin my little review of the state of the modern phone + it's pc software. I set out this little quest to copy about 200 name / phone number pairs to my mobile phone. My mobile phone is a Nokia N73 which...(read more)

Breath taking new technology in imaging and maybe navigation

2007-12-07T16:20:00Z

There is a new video out which is talking about combining images taken by everyone in the whole world and determening their origin and bringing them together to get visions of certain things, which is pretty breath taking by itself. But imagine a new technology for browsing and combining images . Combined with, the multiple ways we have for navigating the world we already have. And then you will have a very cool way of navigating where you want to go :) And what you will see. What you want to see...(read more)

MediaFire Uploader - What is it and why is it here

2007-08-05T22:08:00Z

UPDATE: this program can't be used anymore for more info check out the new blog post Mediafire is a very nice free file hosting service with unlimited storage, unlimited time availability, the posibility to work with folders and fairly advanced sharing possibilities. It even has an optional login. So even if you don't have an account you can still share files with your friends / co workers With all that in mind I decided I wanted to try and use it and also found out some other things: It...(read more)

The future of games and other interfaces: Motion Detection

2007-07-12T13:25:00Z

In my opinion the future of games and other interfaces will be one where motion detection will be a key element. What we are seeing at the moment is that the Nintendo WII is outselling the competition, why is this? Well for one it makes for quite a good party machine meaning that a lot of non standard gamers are picking it up to go out and play with it. I've actually bought one myself a while back and I must say it's quite entertaining to wave your hands and see stuff happening and it's...(read more)

Handeling your computer security and dealing with Spyware and viruses

2007-07-10T17:12:00Z

Viruses and Spyware are annoying to deal with that’s why the following is a bit of a guide to make sure you don’t have to deal with them and if you do need to battle them what the right way to do so is. A bit of advice to help out with not having to deal with this in the first place. When you’re doing things like surfing the web you can make use of a lower privileged account to make sure that the websites / web ads can’t install any stuff on your computer that you don’t like. This also goes for programs...(read more)

Free just got better: The MyGeneration - Codegenerator application got open sourced

2007-07-03T14:57:00Z

One of my favorite productivity tools has been open sourced :) It has been placed on source forge with a BSD style license which means you can use it in open source, non profit and for profit applications. The project can be found here . ---- More information taken from: http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45842 : This is not the end, but a new beginning for MyGeneration. You can easily sync up and compile MyGeneration right out of the box. You will most likely just need to remove...(read more)

Getting people to work at your company, Google Vs Meetup :)

2007-06-07T12:00:00Z

I saw a brilliant campagn document from Meetup.Com in which it compares itself to google in terms of where do you want to work. It plays into Google's strengths and then exposes it's own charms based on that. Have a look here ....(read more)

Getting started with the SubSonic Starter Site on Ms SQL Server 2000

2007-05-22T13:16:00Z

First a pre requisite: You need to have asp.net Ajax installed. Get it at: http://ajax.asp.net Then we need to set up the database, there are some scripts included with the startersite. These are located in: SubSonicStarter\App_Data\Scripts To be able to execute these scripts you will need to create a database. This can be done through Enterprise Manager or through other sql server management tools. The StarterSite is set up to use 2 different databases 1 for membership and 1 for the StarterSite...(read more)