Mischa Kroon

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

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:14 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Warning: MediaFire Deletes files without notice

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:44:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Protecting your online Identity and Passwords the case of _why

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:56:15 GMT

“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...(read more)

Developer Candy: Faster, Iron and Browser Ruby

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:32:27 GMT

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...(read more)

Developer Candy of the week: ExtJS / Coolite

Mischa Kroon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Subsonic Dreams: Stored Procedures a first class citizen

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:03:00 GMT

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...(read more)

VB.NET vs C# the redux

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Jquery AJAX Experience Videos - Beginner and advanced

Mischa Kroon — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Free download... Fnmstudios: Utilities

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:03:49 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Mischa Kroon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:21:19 GMT

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...(read more)

*** You! The story of Ruby on Rails

Mischa Kroon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:00:33 GMT

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...(read more)

Learning new tech

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:51:00 GMT

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,...(read more)

Google's Chrome, my hands on review

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)