Experimental RedHat Installing all* the fonts on Red Hat EL6 February 17, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I am currently working on a project that takes screenshots of websites, and needed a quick way to get the most common fonts installed on the screenshot server. This worked wonders (although, it still needs a bit of tuning, I will work on that later. yum install google-\*-fonts wine-fonts dejavu-\*-fonts Read more »
Random Thoughts Internet Explorer 6 makes me sad. December 17, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment In this day and age, I can’t believe that people are still using Internet Explorer. Because I am a good net citizen, I decided to help my uneducated users out. if (preg_match('/MSIE [456]/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { require 'templates/blank_development/ie6.php'; exit; } Read more »
Spotify Playlists Spotify Playlist: Tim’s Christmas Contribution’s December 11, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Read more » christmas music playlists spotify
PHP WordPress 3.5 is almost complete December 4, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I am writing this blog article to you on the new WordPress 3.5. The updates since 3.4 are really nice. I am especially enjoying the new media manager, with it’s easy to use ‘Drop files anywhere to upload’ screen. According to their Trac install, there is only six issues left to fix before they release […] Read more » PHP wordpress
Random Thoughts Bandwidth of a Boeing 747 December 4, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Read more »
Galium OpenNIC Whois Server Live June 26, 2012 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment The whois server for the .ing top level domain is now live. You will be able to see when domains were first registered with register.ing. The server has been written in nodejs, which is an event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8 (the fastest Javascript engine, written by Google and included with Chrome). whios.js listens […] Read more » .ing whois
Experimental Holidays New Installer Skeleton September 15, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ever written a web application, wondering what will happen months down the track when a client (or even *gasp* you) need to install your web application? I am working on a new installer skeleton (if you will) which will allow you to very simply create a fully functional installer for your slightly complicated web applications. […] Read more »
Computers Linux RedHat CentOS 5.7 has been released September 14, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I know I might bag out CentOS at the best of times, but Karanbir Singh – our fearless leader of all CentOS developers has announced the immediate availability of CentOS-5.7 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Well, what are you waiting for? yum upgrade. Read more »
Random Thoughts How Meetup.com started September 11, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I got an email today from Scott Heiferman, one of the founders of the site ‘Meetup’. A lot of people were thinking that maybe 9/11 could bring people together in a lasting way. So the idea for Meetup was born: Could we use the internet to get off the internet -- and grow local communities? […] Read more »