Jacken’s Blog

I have been working on a web project for my new company. It’s a tracking system that I’m about to write in Ruby on Rails. The steep learning curve makes this beast a long time project. But I can see all the good stuff that’s in RoR so I feel I must learn it.

And for [...]

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I stumbled across this great webmail application called RoundCube. If you ever used Apples Mail program, you feel right at home. It’s still an early beta version 0.1, but already it’s very usable. Even on my over crowded G4 server it feels snappy. So this is a project I will keep my eyes on. First [...]

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Lisbon was great. Lot of work, but also time for some recreation. Parts of it is pretty poor, but all the portugese I met was friendly and helpful. Quite a difference from home. The friendly part I mean.

Unfortunately the food at the hotel was really bland. But most of the restaurants had excellent food. Lots [...]

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I’m going on a business trip to Portugal tomorrow. And I’m already nervous about flying.

We are going to give a first presentation of our new home page for the company that I work for. I’ve been working day and night on it, but it’s hard for someone who does not understand it to realize how [...]

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Two month ago I bought a used Nintendo DS for the kids. And guess what, last month I bought a DS Lite for myself. After playing MarioKart DS and the new SuperMario bros I was hooked. But I also spend a lot of time with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. And I have realized [...]

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I so I finally caved in and bought the web statistics program Mint. I’ve stumbled across articles mentioning it, but I haven’t caved in, until now. It costs $30, which I think is a bit steep. My first impression was a bit disappointing, because the standard package is quite limited. But after installing several plug-ins, [...]

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