Switched to Wordpress

Wordpress

Wordpress

Well, after using Joomla! for my blog since March, I got tired of it. Joomla is great for building large websites, but it was way too complicated for a simple blog like this.   Also, it’s kind of strange that a open source project got next to no documentation.  I had some problems migrating the articles from the Joomla database because of some charset errors from norwegian letters, but have imported the most important stuff now.  Using Wordpress is a whole different experience… so easy!

I guess I have to learn hacking Wordpress themes now.

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Halcyon Eclipse mod / repair

Halcyon

Halcyon

The Halcyon Eclipse is an amazing wing to dive with, but for us cold water divers with thick gloves, the little string on the dump valve is way too hard to get a grip on under water. It doesn’t come with any knobs or any other help for catching it, since that’s apparently violating the DIR philosophy. On top of that, my dump valve had so sharp edges it cut through the string after 20 or so dives.

The solution is very simple- you just need a dremel and a new, thicker string. The construct of the valve is very simple, only four parts in total. Plus the string.

Read more for instructions and photos

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Ungdomskulen at Hulen

Ungdomskulen played a concert at Hulen this friday, and it was absolutely amazing. I was on duty as a photographer, and even though the lighting was challenging at best, there were a few shots I am happy about. I’m putting up a couple of photos here, the rest will be available at hulen.no’s gallery shortly.

If you’re unfamiliar with Ungdomskulen, check out their myspace page and listen to their music.

ungdomskulen guitar player

ungdomskulen guitar player

ungdomskulen bass player

ungdomskulen bass player

ungdomskulen drummer

ungdomskulen drummer

Come back soon, guys!

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The Diaper Pattern

At the final presentation of our XP-driven webshop project we ended up in a discussion about whether to catch runtime exceptions at the top-level or not. After having attended a talk by Kåre Nilsen at ROOTS 2009, called “Enterprise app without enterprise crap”, we took the stand that we did not want to catch the exceptions and rather try to fix them if they occured in stead of hiding what went wrong.

It turns out there is an anti-pattern that describes this dilemma, called the Diaper Pattern. -”Because it catches all the shit”.

Now what’s left to decide is whether this applies to web apps or not…

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Denver Mini På Garage

På torsdag fikk Peder 2 beskjed om at Denver Mini skulle spille konsert, og bassisten var borte. Så etter en øving var det konsert på fredag. Og Peder 1 fikk dokumentert litt av konserten:

Bilder fra konserten kommer plutselig!
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Fotoutstilling på NG2

16. Mai åpner fotoutstillingen til fotogruppa på Hulen på NG2!

14 flotte konsertbilder tatt på Hulen, som skal.. vel, henge til pynt så vi kan sitte og se på våre egne bilder og være stolte av oss selv.

Noen smakebiter:

Skambankt, Annah

© Alexander Øvrebø

© Alexander Øvrebø

Satyricon, foto © Helge Brekke

Satyricon, foto © Helge Brekke

Black Debbath, foto © Anders Helgerud

Black Debbath, foto © Anders Helgerud

Funin, foto © Jostein Bjørge

Funin, foto © Jostein Bjørge

Ta dere en tur!

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Simple quiz-program in Python

When we were studying for exams, Tobias and Peder1 decided to make some tools to help us study.  This is Tobias’ version, written in Python.

“The program is fairly simple. You select a text file containing lines with topics you want to learn, and then you have to type inn all of them. The program writes how many topics are left, and can also give you hints if you need it. You are finished when you have written all topics, or have given up by typing “stop”. Then it writes out how long time you used.”

Read more for the code

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Simple quiz-program written in Java

This is Peders version of the quiz program for studying.  it takes textfiles with the extention .pugg as input
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Spring Tutorial for Beginners

Here’s a link to a nice Spring tutorial, to get into Spring basics

http://www.roseindia.net/spring/index.shtml

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Prepared Statements in Java

Her er den fantastisk lærerike videoen til Tobias som jeg lovte å legge ut på siden min, etter at han maste så lenge om det.

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