Mischa Kroon

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)

Free download... Fnmstudios: Utilities

2009-02-17T22:03:49Z

I have created a windows forms application for my own use a long time ago, since then I have added some features every now and then when needed. A little while ago I decided to give these utilities away for free on my website . At current the Utilities are some rudimentary tools which can be compared to a swiss army knife. So what does it do...It does the following things: Lightweight Codegeneration (based on The World's Simplest Code Generator ) Encode / Decode: HTML, XML, URLS Regex Search...(read more)

Want a free Blog / WIKI / Image gallery + Google APPS for your domain?

2009-02-14T23:21:19Z

Dreamhost is Beta testing something called: Dreamhost Apps Which means that you get to get some free stuff for your domain: WordPress / Drupal / Zen Photo / phpBB / MediaWiki / Google apps. This without having to set anything up, this will be done for you by dreamhost. Because of the beta, its all free. You can sign up here . There is a user limit of 10.000 accounts but as of time of writing that is still far from reached. (7548 accounts available). So if you want to experiment with any of the above...(read more)

*** You! The story of Ruby on Rails

2009-02-14T23:00:33Z

Ruby on rails is one of those technologies that just took of where a lot of other different technologies didn't do anything. I would like to share my insights about why this technology blossomed where a lot of others failed. First of all they did a lot of things right, most things are marketing related. The first steps Perhaps it is best to start out with the beginnings of the Rails framework. Rails was extracted from the basecamp application that 37signals made. This is an online project management...(read more)

Learning new tech

2008-11-24T11:17:00Z

So I'm teaching myself some new technology. That in this case means new technology for me not for the general population. I went freelance about a year ago, this meant that I really wasn't sure which technologies I would be working with since it's much more of a do I want this job kind of thing. Strangely enough the jobs that went my way where PHP jobs, the strange part of this is that I've done most of my development work in MS technologies. The other strange part is that I actually...(read more)

Great advice for startups in video format by: DHH, Jef Bezos, Peter Norvig and others

2008-10-07T11:51:00Z

The videos: http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/ The Speakers: Sam Altman Founder, Loopt Marc Andreessen Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape; Creator of Mosaic Michael Arrington Editor, TechCrunch Jeff Bezos Founder, Amazon.com Paul Buchheit Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail Paul Graham Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Rails; Partner, 37Signals David Lawee Vice President of Corporate Development, Google; Founder, Xfire Jack Sheridan Partner, Wilson Sonsini...(read more)

Google's Chrome, my hands on review

2008-09-03T02:17:00Z

few hours ago I wrote a blog post about google's chrome browser, now it has been released and I've spent a couple of hours toying around with it a bit. You can read about the technical specs of the new browser here . First impressions The good It's slick, the user interface is bare bones. No menu's to speak off no title bar, it starts with tabs and there are some browsing essential buttons (refresh, back, forward) the usual. It's fast, loading pages feels fast, browsing through...(read more)