Author Archives: patrick

Version Control != Dependency Management

Are you using svn:externals, git-submodules or something similar with your Version Control System (VCS) of choice for connecting third-party libraries to your PHP projects? This article explores ways to handle dependencies in PHP projects, just like projects in other programming languages have done for ages. Continue reading

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(Download) File Organizer Tool

Update 2011-05-28: Looks like someone else already did a very good job creating something like the (Download) File Organizer Tool. It’s called “Sick Beard” and does a bit more on some parts and a bit less on other parts. Checkout … Continue reading

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Spinning ideas for an advanced Gigaspaces shell

Update 2011-05-28: A colleague of mine did a create job getting a Gigaspaces Shell project started and working, thanks Jos Check it out on https://code.google.com/p/gash/   As the original GigaSpaces command-line scripts and maven OpenSpaces plugin are far to minimalistic … Continue reading

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Bike trip, Veenendaal Doorwerth, NL

Did a bike trip yesterday evening after work, I rented a bike and started hitting the paddles around 18:00, Friday after work. The plan: To see if it’s do-able to drive from Doorwerth to Veenendaal and back, on my bike, … Continue reading

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Maven download sources of dependencies

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Kungsleden, Sweden

Next-up on the TODO Adventure List is the Kungsleden trail in Sweden. View Larger Map “Kungsleden (“The King’s Trail“) is a hiking trail in northern Sweden, approximately 440-kilometre (270 mi) long, passing through one of Europe‘s largest remaining wilderness area” –wikipedia … Continue reading

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From Mexico to Canada, hiking trail

I just found out about the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in episode 1 of seizoen 4 of the National Geographic tv-serie “America’s Wild Spaces“. “Whether you visit the PCT for a few hours or for a few weeks you’ll surely … Continue reading

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