Retrieving mail from one Google App account to another with POP

Personal,efficiency 11 September 2009 | 72 Comments

I had the need to retrieve mails from one Google App account to another Google App account over POP. Like this you can actually “swap” from one primary domain to another primary domain (since Google does not allow it to be exchanged you need to create a new account and do all the needed steps [...]

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Natasha Tsakos: Being human is an artform

Internet Zeitgeist 30 August 2009 | 1 Comment

This presentation of Natasha Tsakos is very well prepared and entertaining. She shows us a new form of theater, coupled with art and technology. My favorite paragraph is “Being human is an artform”. Watch for your self.

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A petition to Apple to drop AT & T

Apple 18 August 2009 | 8 Comments

Thought this to be quite useful for my American friends.

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Reasons for going Open Source

Internet Zeitgeist,open source 16 August 2009 | 1 Comment

Recently at a conference where I was presenting our Open Source Digital Asset Management, I realized that our company was the only one, out of 60 other companies, that was using a Open Source License. Usually, in this surrounding I get asked more then once how Open Source works for us and primary if we [...]

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Apple or not – that is the question

Apple,Internet Zeitgeist 12 August 2009 | 1 Comment

The recent eMail von Jason Calacanis and his blog post entitled “The Case against Apple in five Parts” brought a little up stir in the Apple world. The recent reply came from Marco.  You can read their back and forth on Jason’s take on Apple and make up your own mind. I have read all [...]

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Automatic Memory Management in Oracle Database 11g

Development,linux 1 August 2009 | 4 Comments

Oracle Database 11g brings lot of new enhancements, especially in the Memory management. Oracle 11g allows you to allocate one chunk of memory, which Oracle uses to dynamically manage both the SGA and PGA. Automatic memory management is configured using two new initialization parameters: MEMORY_TARGET: The amount of shared memory available for Oracle to use [...]

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Setting the correct Java version under MacOS X

Apple,CFML,Development,open source 1 August 2009 | 4,209 Comments

My favorite scripting language is CFML, or as some know it as ColdFusion. I like it because it is very very powerful, easy to use and can do just about everything your xyz language can do. For many years, ColdFusion was a closed sourced system, where the former Macromedia and now Adobe got the copyright [...]

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Updating subversion on 64-bit Linux (CentOS/RedHat)

linux 26 July 2009 | 15 Comments

I run into some issues trying to update subversion on our Linux 64-bit (CentOS) servers. In other words, RPM always complained on some missing dependencies from a old version and aborted the upgrade. The error lines were of the nature; Transaction Check Error: file /{filesuchandsuch} from install of subversion-1.5.6-0.1.el5.rf I mean, I had the old [...]

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Why the WordPress Administration did not load anymore and a solution

Development,open source 26 July 2009 | 49 Comments

Like many people, I totally dig WordPress as my preferred Blog software (despite it being written in PHP, but that is another story:-) ). The way I have WordPress installed my Linux host is that I get the latest stable releases with subversion directly from wordpress.org. So far, I have had never problems with it. [...]

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How to add a custom filter to a Spry text field validation

Development 24 July 2009 | 600 Comments

I have to say that I love the Adobe Spry Javascript framework. It is easy to use and simply just works. For most situations it comes with “widgets” for just about everything you need in your Ajax enabled web application. One of my favorite widgets is the Text Validation one. With it you are able [...]

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