Author Archives: Jory

About Jory

Born in 1988, Software Engineer, Dutch.

How keeping code in the right layer saved a website

At my job at e-sites, one of the projects I worked on was the new Sport 1 website. The website went live yesterday morning. About 20 minutes later, I was asked to look at why it was so slow. For … Continue reading

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PHP’s SoapServer and generating WSDL files

Since PHP5, doing stuff with Soap became way easier. SoapServer and SoapClient where added, giving pretty much everybody the ability to create a simple SOAP provider and consumer. But, as always, there is a but. And the ‘but’ in this … Continue reading

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Updates that bite

Every year, there is the JOTI (See http://www.joti.org/en/index.html and http://jota-joti.scoutingrijen.nl/en/home ) event. We (Scouting Rijen, the local Scouting branch) join the event every year. The last 4 years, I was a part of the team organising that. (But I stopped … Continue reading

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Usability

jory@jory-xubuntu:/$ htop The program ‘htop’ is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install htop jory@jory-xubuntu:/$ sudo apt-get install htop Setting up htop (0.8.3-1ubuntu1) … jory@jory-xubuntu:$ htop And people say Linux isn’t user friendly. 🙂

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