Category Archives: Software

Improved logo for wamblee.org

Posted on July 13, 2010 by erik

Several improvements to the logo: more abstract connectors removing any association with plungers smoothed shapes so it also looks good in large size better colors, nice primary colors just like Duke more unobscured Duke image (connector is moved to the … Continue reading →

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New logo for wamblee.org

Posted on July 12, 2010 by erik

Here it is, the new logo for wamblee.org. It is Duke is flying like an eagle (wamblee) on a component (a Java component of course).  The component has one provided interface and two required interfaces. If you listen carefully, you … Continue reading →

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Successfully rendered Duke logo using blender

Posted on July 12, 2010 by erik

After quite a lot of trying, and learning to use Blender, a great open source 3D rendering package, I finally managed to create a Duke image based on a DXF file from the open source Duke project.The rendered image is … Continue reading →

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James Gosling – quote

Posted on July 9, 2010 by erik

I apparently missed the news item that James Gosling left Oracle in April. One interesting quote though: “Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.” Really subtle. And a brilliant … Continue reading →

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More styling on the site

Posted on July 2, 2010 by erik

I did some more restyling on the site. The aim is minimal clutter and minimalistic style. If you have any suggestions to improve the site layout, please let me know!

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Java 4 Ever

Posted on June 30, 2010 by erik
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The black art of CSS

Posted on June 28, 2010 by erik

Yes, after a little bit of hacking with CSS and as usual bumping my head against several little issues that I still don’t understand, I managed to improve the layout of the site. The title is now neatly placed on … Continue reading →

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Improved links (and testing twitter integration)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by erik

Now links are more user-friendly (bookmarkable).

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Migrated from joomla to wordpress…

Posted on June 27, 2010 by erik

For a long time now I have been a bit annoyed by the limitations of joomla and now finally migrated to wordpress. As it turns out, migration is a breeze. I used a tool to migrate Joomla to an older … Continue reading →

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Your boss knows more about innovation then you do…

Posted on April 25, 2010 by erik

Here's a quote from 'Myths of Innovation', Scott Berkun, first paragraph of chapter 7.  "What advice would typical executives give Stephen Hawking, one of the brightest living minds, if he worked for them? Would they ask him to write daily … Continue reading →

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