Roel Meurders
Welcome to the digital playground of Roel Meurders. I'm from the Netherlands and very, very, very occasionaly I write something which I want to share with the world and which exceeds 140 characters. This is where those ramblings end up.
My favorite iOS apps
It's been two months since I switched from an iPhone to a Windows Phone and as expected this new platform is not as mature as the iOS platform. The switch has taught me which applications on iOS I used/missed most. Here's an overview of my favourite iOS apps.
No new iPhone for me and this is why.
A few days ago I finally made the decision and placed the order for my new mobile phone. Although deciding on a new phone is not a matter of life or death, nowadays it is still a tough decision to make. Not only do you need to decide which phone you want to get, you also need to decide which mobile ecosystem you want to belong to and if you are willing to change to a new ecosystem or not.
For me, buying a new iPhone was the obvious option. I've been an Apple user for quite a while now, switching to OS X shortly after I favored internet over architecture and the need to use Windows because of AutoCAD and the likes disappeared. So when Apple released their first iPhone in 2007 I was able to jump the bandwagon with an imported iPhone (later dubbed 2G).
Gmail to Google Apps with Larch
Preamble: You've moved your primary email account from one Gmail account to another (e.g. regular Gmail to Google Apps).
Target: You want to move all your email archive from your old account to your new account and in the process of doing so you want to preserve your message dates.
In this article I show you how I managed to migrate all my mail with Larch.
Installing gettext on Snow Leopard
Yesterday I started working on internationalization of one of our Django projects.
After I marked all translatable strings in the test pages, I tried to ran the command to generate the language files django-admin makemessages -l nl and all I got were some errors on my sceen.
Luckily the solution was easier than I thought.
Mac keyboard shortcuts for special characters
Recently I made the switch from a Windows PC to a Mac. A switch I don’t regret, because a Mac ,with its *nix background, is just more suitable for my line of work (web development).
One of the first things I ran into was how to type special characters. It turns out the Mac makes this extremely easy.