Mischa Kroon

Tech to try in 2012

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Mischa Kroon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Mischa Kroon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SASS and CoffeeScript For .NET And Visual Studio

Mischa Kroon — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Ruby On Rails 3.1 RC4

Mischa Kroon — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:38:45 GMT

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...(read more)

Ruby on Rails almost on Version 3.1

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:53:56 GMT

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...(read more)

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)