How to fix 'protocol error: bad line length character: <!DO' problem with the Bonobo Git Server. The Problem When I push changes to a project on the Bonobo Git server, it fails with the following message: protocol error: bad line length character: <!DO It only happens with large…
One of the best computer games I have ever played is Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - yes - 2 - not version 5 or 6. I played it and the expansion pack "Prize of Loyalty" on my Acorn RISC PC for a long time. I have also tried newer versions but…
I have for quite a while been hosting my homepage (the one you are looking at!) on my own server at home, a MacMini. I have now finally moved the site to GitHub. The Process The site is still created as a series of static pages by jekyll, a static…
I'm getting into NodeJS programming and have read a lot about it. My background is mainly server-side programming but I have also done a bit javascript on the client side and thus the async ways of Node are not completely foreign to me. It is however very different…
Note to Self - Remember the following when using Apache on a Mac with OSX Server: The sites folder is at "/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/". The server configuration is at "/Library/Server/Config/apache2/". Set "AllowOverride All" in the "/Library/Server/Config/apache2/sites/*.conf" files. Remove "SetEnvIf User-Agent…
Supporting older browsers, in particular old Internet Explorer versions, can be very difficult and takes a lot of time and effort. If you agree with that statement, then I suggest you add the following rule to the .htaccess file of your Apache site. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on…
It seems typography is the latest and greatest among web designers. All web designers blog about it and magazines write about it. It’s almost as if it was a new thing. It not new and has in fact been known and used for a very, very long time.…
I have looked into improving the way images are presented in my blog. I want them to have a shadow, without having to change the pictures. Helpfully the new CSS3 has the box-shadow feature which is just what I need. Obviously things aren’t that simple, since the…
I’m planning a trip to Vienna. To get a sense of the distance involved, I used the Google Maps “Get directions” function. It worked as expected and showed me the picture below. I then, just for fun, asked it for walking directions. This function is still…
No, this is not about creating applications that can run on multiple platforms. Instead this is about being able to move from one computer to another and being ready to code immediately without first having to install a bunch of applications. Vision Imagine being able to move between your work…
My main computer at home is a MacMini (current gen.) which is a very nice machine but probably never meant as gaming machine. Nevertheless I decided to try running C&C 4 on it using Parallels. It works! Surprisingly it seems to work very well. The game runs without…
My Squarespace address is bbracke.squarespace.com which is neither good nor really bad. I have another address www.bracke.dk which is better and the obvious solution would be to perform a DNS redirect but the basic Squarespace account does not support that. DNS redirection and SquareSpace Pro Well,…
I have never really been satisfied with the look of this site. It seemed quite dull but also crowded. Crowded page The cause for the crowdedness was obvious: All those buttons on the right side of the page. They were links to various Web sites and were meant to make…
I have several profile pages on the web. It seems every site on the web requires you to enter all sorts of private information and many publish this data as a user profile. I usually only enter what is necessary or required and I try to activate all privacy options.…
I have recently started playing HoMM V again. It has been a year or two since I played it last time. It is just as fun as I remembered it to be and a good time waster, while I wait for HoMM VI ! While hurrying through the Haven campaign I…
Squarespace has just released their iPhone app. The app is free and only connects to Squarespace accounts. Great GUI - no special features Featurewise it is very much like many other blogging apps. It supports editing of new and existing blog posts and supports images and tagging. It does not offer…
My first computer was a Commodore 64, but both the second and third computers were RISC OS machines (Acorn Archimedes A3010 and Acorn RiscPC). I have used RISC OS for close to 15 years and I have only recently moved to the Mac. Source code available During those RISC OS…
I have recently become interested in developing for the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch). The obvious way to do that is to use XCode and program in Objective C. But I would rather not do that. Not because I dislike the language (seems quite nice indeed) but simply because I…
I have recently moved my website to Squarespace and also chosen to use my Squarespace site as my blog. My old Blogspot blog is no more. Though I have managed to import the two (!) poultry blog entries from that blog into Squarespace. Import / Export That import function and the corresponding…
I would like to use my iPhone to blog to maximize the chances of any blogging actually happening! There are many blogging Apps in the AppStore, but they all seem to have the same (very) basic feature set. Blog features - no markup They all allow you to enter text and…
Yesterday I watched the movie “The Bourne Ultimatum”. It premiered three weeks ago in Denmark, but only yesterday in the local cinema. I liked both previous Bourne movies (“The Bourne Identity” and “The Bourne Supremacy”) and actually also liked the old version of “…
So this is it, I have a blog! This is the first post to my blog, well actually the first was a test posting but that doesn’t count! I chose to have a blog because I wanted to try something different than I usually do. I’m…