Klaus' Korner

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 – the same group that declared EDI dead in 1995/96? Was it not the same Benoit Lheureux who predicted a few years later that XML will replace EDI? What made him…

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 major reason. In addition since I now have a iPad and there is a iOS app that allows me to maintain the blog from anywhere, I just can not resist…

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 for access from the host machine or http://10.0.1.100:3000/system/login for access from machines on the local network, changes are required to the hosts file.

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 end of the day a brand new 64GB iPad 2 in my hand.

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 One Laptop Per Child).  The book was titled “Being Digital” and was both a look back and a look forward on technology. Negroponte believed that technology should be smart so…