I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync, a little piece of software I’ve written myself, for some years now. I use it to backup my photo’s and movies I’ve shot over the last decade or so. The thing I like about it is that it syncs your local folder with a Cloud Files container. When …
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Something I accidentally discovered is that in Windows 8.1 (and probably 8 as well – and Windows 7) you can use the Windows key + a number to open an application from your task bar! So lets say you’ve got Google Chrome at position 1, Thunderbird at 2 and Visual Studio 2012 at position 3. …
Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …
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Recently I launched my new product HTML2PDF Web Service — a web service for converting HTML to PDF. In this post I’d like to talk about HTML2PDF Web Service. Why to choose it, how to use it and what technologies were used to create it. Why Choose HTML2PDF Web Service? Programmatically generating PDF documents is …
Today I ran into an issue where VirtualBox wouldn’t start my virtual machines anymore because of missing VT-X support. Which was strange as my CPU (Intel i7) does support this and it did work just a day ago. After some searching and trying the latest version of VirtualBox it turns out that Microsoft’s Hyper-V (Hyper …
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