http://www.sanderverbruggen.com Is there anything I *don't* have an opinion about? Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:45:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My espresso machine was a bit leaky lately. It's a Quickmill 820R. A nice machine, bought it refurbished. Put it away for about 2 years (my "Nespresso period"). I decided to go back to the real stuff, but found that it didn't work as well as it would before. As you ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2010/03/13/fixing-my-espresso-machine/ As of 25 september 2009 I'm a Certified Scrum Master. After an excellent training by Michael Franken (http://www.zilverline.com) and Tobias Mayer (http://agilethinking.net) I'm the proud owner of a new title: The training provided me with a lot of new ideas, now to find a project to put it to work!! http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/09/30/certified-scrum-master/ Just pimped my laptop. Not that I didn't like the looks of my MacBook Pro, but the laptop skins I found on http://glennz.com just struck me. At first they look like simple drawings, but if you look closer, it has a little story or gimmick to it. This is the laptop ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/07/31/pimped-my-laptop/ One of the first things I noticed when generating the views from my domain classes was the code to link to an object in list.gsp. Wouldn't it be nice to just 'mention' an object using a tag that would render itself including a link to it's controller? That resulted in the ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/07/28/domainlink-tag-for-grails/ HTML Signatures HTML signatures can be created within Firefox using a simple plugin. This plugin doesn't work with Safari or Fluid however. I will use Bookmarklets as an alternative to this plugin for Fluid. The page behind this link doesn't work well with tables however, it adds dashed borders around each ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/07/21/html-bookmarks-in-gmail/ Via het bureau 'Gewoon aan de slag' volgde ik de cursus Zuiver Communiceren (ZC). Zuiver Communiceren is een manier van communiceren die onder andere gebruikt wordt bij coaching en advies. In de IT zijn wij als techneuten vaak de partij die duidelijk moeten krijgen wat een klant wil. Vaak weet een ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/07/21/zuiver-communiceren/ One of the things I like about my iRex Iliad was the notes feature. You can write on the screen, using a set of predefined templates (blank, lines and squares). Now, this made me feel like I was back in school. Handwriting is not my strong point. But it's kinda ... http://www.sanderverbruggen.com/2009/07/15/scrum-cards-for-iliad/