February 2012
1 post
4.7 Earthquake near Santiago
We had an earthquake last night, not a really heavy one but look how close to Santiago…
You can see all the details about this quake overhere.
January 2012
2 posts
My schedule is now online
Often I get questions like “When do you have time for…?”, now you can see it yourself! I’ve published my calendar online, you can see it at http://jeroenlandheer.com/Calendar
Or if you want it to add this to your Outlook, simply open this link.
Update: For security reasons, I’ve decided to only publish free/busy information. Being busy does not mean that I’m...
Internet Access - Is it a human right? →
Well, no… according to Vinton Cerf, one of the pioneers of the Internet.
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
4 posts
A new website layout
I decided to change the website layout, I hope you all like it :)
Fun with byte arrays
Some easy and fun byte array extensions
static class ByteArrayExtensions
{
public static string ToHexString(this byte[] bytes)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++)
{
sb.AppendFormat("{0:X2}", bytes[i]);
}
return sb.ToString();
}
public static byte[] Copy(this byte[] bytes)
{
...
August 2011
1 post
Holy smokes! →
Try to wrap your head around that solution…
June 2011
8 posts
Time for a universal software updater?
Just one of the things the average user is batteling with every patch tuesday is that if you have 10 different software products installed, you have 10 different update procedures to go through. Something tells me this could (and should) be a lot simpler. One of the best updaters in the software industry is Windows Update. Without a doubt it is the least intrusive (no popups), does it work when...
Text to Morse Code in C#
This was one of those questions on code golf that was very interesting: “Write the shortest program to transform the standard input into Morse code. Characters not in the table should be printed as they are.” The C# Answer was actually a pretty clever one: class P{static void Main(string[] a){foreach(var t in a[0]){var c=”“;for(int i=” ETIANMSURWDKGOHVF L PJBXCYZQ ...
99 Bottles of Beer →
With an answer in BrainF***!
Tuesday Morning Post: By patch day be purged... →
Last week, Ahune busted our instance servers. This week, Ragnaros gets the chance to do the same as we fully expect patch 4.2 to go live as of this writing. Now mind you, I’m not saying servers will crash, but hey…
Exporting 'non-exportable' certificates - What the...
Certificates that are stored in a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) of a computer, marked as non-exportable should not be allowed to be exported, ever… It seems though that iSEC found a way to ‘Jailbreak’ non-exportable certificates. The big question is: is this a hack or is this using official supported functionality? Probably a bit of both. Nevertheless, Symantec already has...
MJ Loves Creating FUD →
Microsoft splits up its XAML team: What’s the fallout? There is none. XAML is one of the technologies that will be a core part of Windows 8 and Silverlight won’t get moved out any time soon….
Zzzzz
Why is it, that in weekdays I have trouble to wake up and in weekends I can’t sleep in the morning? I got up at 7 AM this morning, way too early for a saturday…
Hurray, My weblog works!
Hello world! It has been a long time since I blogged and put stuff out there on the internet. Too long. So from now on I’ll be posting something at least once a week on how everything goes.
You can expect things here that have to do with tech, software development and system maintenance.
I also will put some fun stuff here and some things for entertainment. So keep an eye on this and...