Jeroen Schaftenaar

Upgrade to CodeIgniter 1.7.2

Finally made the upgrade to CI 1.7.2, why? Because I can I also made some changes in the video section. Since I never make a video on YouTube, it now just lists the videos that I am subscribed too.

Will make some more layout changes though, and I think it's also time for a new banner.

SexySammy

Happy 2010! My new years resolution

Yeah, I'm a bit late. But I just wanted to share this new year with the interweb. For me the new year started on january 5. It was the date where my team had the final presentation of a 2 month school project, it meant closure and no sleepless nights anymore.

I celebrated the end by going to Avatar 3D. I liked everything of it, the story, the graphics, everything. Except for the entrance fee; THIRTEEN euro's. I might sound like a cheapskate, but i'm still a student with no job. And I wanna see that movie again and again.

So this let me to my new years resolution. First I tried to analyze myself, to see what I could do better. I concluded that I have a bad focus. I'm easily distracted, or lose interest when things aren't going according to plan. I decided I should stop trying to multitask; it is evil. My brain is not smart enough to do multitasking. I cannot work and listen to music at the same time. I know it sounds not like a big deal, but I'm the type of person who likes to listen to the lyrics.

So my plan is this new year is to commit myself doing only one task at a time. And maybe give me time limits. For example: I could commit myself to work one hour on homework, without any instant message programs on, without checking some news site, without listening to the radio, without having the television on in the background. Just put all of my attention on just one task.

An other new years resolution is making todo lists - and accomplish them. I want to make a todo list or list of goals for every month. Give myself objectives; I believe this will help me to be more focussed. Also it will give me a sense of feeling that I have accomplished something.

Well, that's pretty much what I wanted to blog about this new year.

Have a great one everybody!

Sammy

Mac OS X – Show/Hide Hidden Files Automation

Lately I’ve needed to show .htaccess file in finder. In finder every file with a dot in front of it is hidden. You have to change this using shell commands. But this is a superfluous process. I scoured the internet and found ways to automate this. There are some software solutions but the way I [...]

Sites I follow and why

This is going to be a pretty self-explanatory blog post. Personal interests http://slashdot.orgFor a few years already I am following this site. I really like the news about space and about games. http://blog.wolfire.comThese guys are creating a game and it is a lot of fun to follow their progress http://blog.guykawasaki.comHas interesting articles about entrepreneurship http://macrumors.comApple FTW http://digg.com/programmingProgramming news. http://tweakers.netDutch computer and technology [...]

Still Alive

To let you all know I’m still alive :). Been rather busy the last couple of months, work is a real bitch at the moment and weeks of 50+ are no exception. Looking at the brighter side, vacation is coming closer quickly. I’m really looking forward to the 3 weeks vacation in Bali, you’ve got [...]

Looking back to the new homepage

For a while now I’ve been thinking about updating this design to give it a more web 2.0 feel. I updated the header and the footer to do exactly that. Al it is still work in progress I pushed this new design out already. This are the things that are changed: New header/footer look & feel Changed [...]

Logging my Life

A few months ago I was writing my new year's resolution, how I wanted to be more conscious of my life, how I wanted to be more aware of what I'm doing. At the moment I felt life was going so fast and if I didn't appreciated every moment of it, it would be too sad.

Since I have an iPhone I found a lot of apps that help me log almost everything. My weight, my expenses, my appetite.. Even though I want to be more aware of my life, I think I should draw a line with logging everything.

SexySammy

ps: Yes, Sexysammy.nl doesn't exist anymore. I have always intended to keep the URL for only a year. At that time Lycos had this promo where I could get a URL for 1 euro the first year.

Tips to improve the quality of your blog posts

For a while now I’ve been blogging a bit and while I am not a professional in this, I discovered some useful tricks which I want to share with you. I will not discuss obvious things like use a spellchecker, on the other hand some things I describe will sound obvious but will need effort [...]

Programming madness

Currently I am working with four programming languages/scripts at the same time and while this sometimes frustrates me I am also loving it. It frustrates me because sometimes I mess up really simple things which don’t give an error in one compiler but will do in the other. Also there is a huge difference in [...]

Bali

Now I have booked my N’th time ticket to the beautiful Bali people ask me what’s so special about Bali and quiet honestly 9 out of 10 times I can’t give them a good answer. For me it’s a feeling, and I’m not able to put this feeling to words. And really I think it’s [...]