Mischa Kroon

Tech to try in 2012

2012-01-31T23:10:00Z

February is already here and I've been meaning to write this for quite a while. This year I want to have tried some new tech by the end of the year, it's very common for me to want to try different technologies but a little less common that I actually give myself a goal with a deadline. So I guess this will be the first time. The tech I want to have tried: Monogame : I want to have made a game with this, not sure on which platforms I want to be able to run it yet. So what tech do you think...(read more)

Want to speed up your website use a CDN for commonly used files

2011-09-30T13:18:00Z

Introduction Serving files from a website is easy just link to them and you're done. Serving files from your website in the most optimal way isn't that easy, first you have to think about things like making sure that the caching is right and if the files are being used a lot on other sites. If files are being used a lot on other sites then it could be that the user already has a copy of this file lying around, let's say you use jQuery on your site. You're not the only one using this...(read more)

Version Control by Example: Review and how to get it for free.

2011-09-30T12:32:00Z

I just read: Version Control by Example It's a free printed book which can be shipped to your home for free by filling out a page full of questions. If you want the details on how to get it shipped to your home or have any questions about it find out the details here . Quick review of the book: Introduction The book gives you a quick intro about version control systems, it tells you about the history of version control systems and how they got here. What the different commands are for the version...(read more)

SASS and CoffeeScript For .NET And Visual Studio

2011-08-12T10:43:00Z

About a month ago I started diving into the world of Rails again . As I said in that blog post, Rails has always had much thought leadership and has always been a hip way to develop. Now 2 of the main new technologies that where discussed in that blog post have made it into the .NET world in a very polished way. Mindscape, the folks who made the wonderful LightSpeed ORM , have made the free Web Workbench , which supports LESS, SASS and CoffeeScript. I wrote a little bit about SASS and CoffeeScript...(read more)

Ruby On Rails 3.1 RC4

2011-08-11T22:38:45Z

Let the fun begin Ok diving into Rails after not having touched it in a while feels a bit painful to be honest. Getting Started Using the guide on: http://rubyonrails.org/download I got off to a good start. Picking the latest version of Ruby + the rails 3.1 RC. Then the first problem seems to be going after the database. Sqlite3.dll needs to be downloaded and put into the rubypath\bin directory. Easy step to do just head over to sqlite.org/download to get that. Now I tried getting MySql to work with...(read more)

Ruby on Rails almost on Version 3.1

2011-07-17T14:53:56Z

Introduction I’m finally granting myself some time again to write about the interesting things that I run across in development. Its always interesting to see what the Rails world is doing to see what's hip in development, because the Rails folks are hipsters and innovators. This however isn’t always true. Prepared statements are only now being built into Rails. This is quite surprising to me. Prepared statements have long been a pretty good way of guarding against SQL injection. So its a very...(read more)

Next Prediction: Google Chrome will gain a lot of market share

2010-02-10T18:01:14Z

At time of writing the market share of Safari and Google Chrome is around 5% each. Firefox is around 30% and the rest is IE and Opera and some other browsers with a small market share. The rising stars Safari’s market share has risen quite fast. From around 3% in June 2009 to 5% around January 2010 Chrome did it’s thing even faster. Going from 0,5% in mid 2008 to 5.5% around January 2010 Off course Firefox has also been increasing in market share but not by as much. Going from 20% in mid 2008...(read more)

2010: Year of: Tablets, E-Readers, Internet Phones

2010-01-31T20:40:00Z

A while back I predicted that motion detection would be the future of gaming . I think we can say that with Sony and Microsoft heavily investing in motion detection and have some big projects down the line. Microsoft with Project Natal and Sony with the Wand Controller . My prediction for 2010 is that this is the year where people actually start using E-readers a lot. There are a couple of different companies which will enter the market with new shiny Tablet computers. Apple just recently presented...(read more)

Warning: MediaFire Deletes files without notice

2009-09-15T20:44:00Z

A couple of days ago my girlfriend called me that the files she stored at MediaFire where gone. A little after that I tried to login to MediaFire to have a look at how my files where doing. I was quite surprised to see my own files deleted as well. After that I came across a FAQ entry on the website “There is currently no time limit on how long uploaded files will be stored as long as you access your account (i.e. login to your account) at least once every 60 days OR at least one of your files...(read more)

Protecting your online Identity and Passwords the case of _why

2009-09-15T19:56:15Z

“Je bent bekender dan je denkt” This is a dutch subject which is sent around by the government which alerts you to the dangers of having an online profile. By creating a video clip using an online profile on the hyves site which is sort of a dutch MySpace / facebook. This uses images from your “friends” and integrates them in the video. It’s quite interesting that these things can so easily be done nowadays. It’s getting harder and harder to stay anonymous. When you have an online presence. _why...(read more)

Developer Candy: Faster, Iron and Browser Ruby

2009-08-30T18:32:27Z

This week there are 3 pieces of candy which are all sort of related, they are all talking about ruby Candy nr 1: Faster ruby Ruby for windows has long been available as a 1 click installer, this one click installer is based on Visual C++ version 6 which came out in 1998. There is an effort going on to update this installer to a newer version of Mingw + GCC. The new installer is called Rubyinstaller and can be found here . How much faster is it? Benchmarks can be found here . Candy nr 2: Iron ruby...(read more)

Developer Candy of the week: ExtJS / Coolite

2009-08-15T10:32:00Z

A while back a colleague of mine used to send out emails every once in a while called candy of the week. This little piece of candy usually was a pretty picture or website which lightened up everyone's day. I was thinking about moving this concept to my blog and to go with a developer theme. To make things interesting for my Developer readers. Which I’m going to assume most of you are. My first post will be some double candy: Candy nr 1: ExtJS is a JavaScript library and UI framework to...(read more)

Subsonic Dreams: Stored Procedures a first class citizen

2009-07-28T19:03:00Z

About SubSonic Let me start off by saying that SubSonic is great, it's my DAL of choice for most projects. It's small it's fast to set up and it has a whole lot of functionality and elegance out of the box. You can tell I was pretty exited about it by reading my previous entry about SubSonic. That said there are a couple of things that in my humble opinion can still be improved upon in the project. Stored Procedures VS Other Data Access in SubSonic Data can be inserted / Updated in the...(read more)

VB.NET vs C# the redux

2009-07-20T18:40:00Z

Introduction A while ago there was quite the discussion about what the differences where between VB.NET and C# and what people should use. After a while it seems that most things where said and it became clear that the C# camp had the most zealous advocates. Now things have quieted down a lot and it would seem that most people have made their choice and perhaps even changed it in between. At the time that I wrote my previous post about the subject the statistics where telling us that the usage was...(read more)

Jquery AJAX Experience Videos - Beginner and advanced

2009-02-21T17:32:00Z

The folks of ajaxian where so kind to give us some videos with some beginner and advanced Jquery content covering both Jquery and Jquery UI. These folks have also given us a nice web based editor / IDE a few days back. Which is something really weird when you think about it....(read more)