Recently there was some kerfuffle about LinkedIn silently changing privacy settings. In fact, they didn't do that "silently", nor was it "recent". Remember that large chunk of text nobody reads with the "Agree" button you clicked on? Those were the new terms, and deeply buried in them was …

This weekend I tried to add beat markers to a video for a colleague. But the beat marker menu option was grayed out, and I spent some time searching for the "Clip Trimmer" everybody was talking about. I was in a bit of a hurry and all the right-clicks, top menu, gear-icon popup menus, and shortcuts made me …

Maybe the title of this post should read "how to open a Krups XN2001 Nespresso machine". The Krups XN2001 is almost identical to the newer XN2002 and XN2003. While the XN2003 has normal Torx screws, Krups was a bit more "protective" when they built the XN2001. It has screws that can not be gripped …

Months ago, I got this broken Aeroccino milk frother for free. This week I fiddled with it for a few hours, and got it to work: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEqWH3ILDc] ... and this is how you get it apart. First carefully pull out the button on the front: And then remove the rubber plugs to get to the …

You know how it is on vacation. You take your camera, shoot pictures, and when you get home you see that you forgot to set the date/time on your camera. Even worse: your wife also took a camera with her, and she actually read the manual and set the time correctly. So now you have two sets of photos with mismatching …

The top feature of the eclipse IDE is the very impressive refactoring possibilities. It makes code feel like play-doh, allowing you to knead it in any shape way or form you think fits the current situation. A close second to that is the impressive templates and code assist. Yes, Java is verbose, but I think 80% of the …

After lies about Dropbox Employees not being able to see your files, then proving that they do not do regression testing on their security, the latest change in terms of service really was the last drop. So I dropped dropbox. I had become dependent on Dropbox to transfer files between my private and work machines, …

Jenkins, the brilliant Continuous Integration build server, has a bit of a problem with the Maven surefire jUnit test plugin. Last sunday, I discovered that our Jenkins build server suddenly started ignoring test failures. While the logfile clearly states that the Unittests contain failures, Jenkins marks the builds as …

As a long time user of Eclipse, I have never understood the any of the tabs of the Search panel in Eclipse. JavaScript search, Java Search, Remote Search, they all make no sense to a modern man who is used to a single search box which searches everything. So I always use the "File Search" Tab, which does …

A few months ago we had a problem where Eclipse could not automatically run all jUnit unit tests in a package if that package references a class called "enum", which is a reserved word in Java 1.6. I'll spare you the details, but we were forced to create a TestSuite. Normally we avoid this construction …