Monthly Archives: March 2011

EDI is HOT!

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Klaus

Yesterday during lunch with some colleagues of mine, who are die-hard EDI programmers, made fun of an article by Benoit Lheureux a Research VP with the Garner Group titled “EDI is HOT. No, really!” My first thoughts were, Gartner – … Continue reading →

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Going offline to switch over to WordPress

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Klaus

As I mention last month, I started to seriously think of switching over from Enki to WordPress. I do like Enki, but the fact that I have limited time to maintain the code as well as write postings is a … Continue reading →

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Local development/test domain setup

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Klaus

This posting shows how to setup a local domain for development and/or testing to allow access the same way as to the production system using a real URL instead of the customary development type URLs such as http://localhost:3000/system/login or http://127.0.0.1:3000/system/login … Continue reading →

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Getting my iPad 2

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Klaus

It was a very interesting day after all. It started of with a big disappointment that Apple’s so call Fast Delivery for online orders turned out to be not fast at all. However it ended with me holding by the … Continue reading →

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The Dawn of Smart News?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Klaus

Last year before the release of the original iPad I wrote a posting titled “Apple’s Tablet a step towards ‘being digital’?“. It was about a book I read in 1995 by Nicholas Negroponte (founder of the MIT Media Lab and … Continue reading →

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Apple Unveils new iPad 2

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Klaus

Finally the wait is over at least concerning the new iPads specification. We still have to wait 9 days before being able to purchase one. Apple announced today that the iPad 2 will include a front- and rear-facing camera, a … Continue reading →

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Simple RoR Deployment

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Klaus

Since the beginning of using Ruby on Rails (RoR) I hesitated when it came to deploying the application in production mode. Everything I read sounded and look complicated and the fact that books recommended to use Capistrano drove the point … Continue reading →

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