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 on the left.

This means I can use it for other logos and movies that I create with Blender. Soon I will use it on the wamblee.org website which recently also got a style update. The good thing about it is that in this way I can use the Duke image inside any 3D model I want. In particular, it also contains a rig but haven’t tried that yet. With some luck I should also be able to create Duke animations from that.

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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 picture from his blog:

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Best of Downhill and Freeride

Posted on July 5, 2010 by erik

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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 top of the header image and I changed the background color. It never ceases to amaze me how big the effect of little changes on a page can be.

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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 wordpress version 2.6.5, and after that simply upgrading wordpress to the most recent version. The bulk of the work is now in customizing the site a little, starting with look and feel and then adding other functionality.

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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 status reports? Defend his action items from PowerPoint slides at team debrief meetings? Of similar curiosity is whether Steve Wozniak, Albert Einstein, or Isaac Newton ever filled out time cards, wrote performance reviews, or had their ideas ranked on scorecards by committees of middle managers. Could you imagine Mozart, da Vinci, or Marie Curie sitting next to each other, taking notes, at an all day company wide event/ It's hard to see any of these commonplace situations working outwell for the prospect of innovation."

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Looking into Java EE 6 and OSGI

Posted on April 10, 2010 by erik

At devoxx last year, it became quite clear that the industry is moving towards more lightweight approaches for enterprise development.

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