View of Zutphen's old side of the city. I took this photo with Pano on my iPhone 3G and enhanced it with Preview.
More panorama's by me : Panoramio.

Today I switched my comic book reader on my iPhone from ComicZeal to MyComics to ComicReader Mobi. I found that the last one has the same functionality as the other two + a lot more. No conversion of files, no separate uploader - you can use any FTP-client, simply upload your folders so you have the same arrangement as in the Finder (yes, I use a Mac).

I use Transmit as the FTP client and created a favourite to my iPhone, then dragged the favourite to my books folder so it's accessible from there.


The only thing with ComicReader Mobi is that it doesn't handle files with special characters in the file name (yet) : é, è, etc. simply block the ftp transfer. On the forum I read that an update which addresses this issue is on its way.

A comic book reader is nothing more than an image-viewer which views images stored in a ZIP-file. This simple fact means you can read any book with a comic book reader as long you do not OCR your scans into a text document. For example, I am scanning De Saint pocket books. The scanned images are named in sequence : IMG_0000.jpg, IMG_0001.jpg, and so on. The folder name is the name of the story. Thus, when I zip the folder and change the extension in .cbz (ComicBookZip; so a zip file doesn't get opened with the standard zip-utility), I can read the book in any comic book reader, also those on iPhone or iPod Touch! The advantage of not OCR-ing pocket books is that these kind of books have small pages and can therefore be read quite good on an iPhone or iPod Touch in landscape mode, and you also retain the layout, page numbers and possible images in the book.

From october 1 thru 4, the Lasso Developer Conference 2009 was held in Amsterdam. For me, this was the first time because a) it was in Amsterdam and b) Lasso 9 would be introduced and c) at last I would meet quite a few fellow Lasso-ers in real life.
There were some round-tables and workshops presented by Lasso-ers themselves, where some interesting topics were discussed and great solutions to returning questions were offered.
LassoSoft picked a real cool location: Spaces at the Herengracht. You can see some photo's of it here.

It was great. Thanks Lassosoft and everyone for this opportunity!



LDC09 Video's :
YouTube - LassoSoft's channel

Here are some links to LDC09 material :
LassoTech
At_begin URL-handling and REST
Version Control Systems
L-Migrator presentation
itPage presentation
Lfor presentation
Encoding and Character-sets
File permissions
jquery Week calendar

Check out the lively Lasso community at LassoTalk
And Brian's blog-post

Een week of wat geleden reden we naar Arnhem en de hele weg zat er voor ons een auto waarvan de achterruit de zon recht in ons gezicht reflecteerde, waardoor je, zelfs met zonnebril, bijna geheel werd verblind. Op de foto was het al wat minder, maar toch nog fel genoeg om storend te zijn. Ik heb Postbus 51 gemaild en het is doorgegeven:

"Via Postbus 51 hebben wij uw e-mail van 07 september jl. ontvangen. Hierin vraagt u of het ministerie iets kan doen aan verblindend zonlicht reflecterende achterruiten van personenauto's.
Ik stuur uw bericht ter informatie door aan het Team Verkeersveiligheid van het Directoraat-Generaal Mobiliteit."

A new version of SetEXIFData is on-line. You can find it here.

Today I found it necessary to redesign my website.. I've been doing it for others all the time, and now it is my turn. And this is it! Of course I didn't design this cool look and feel - that's part RapidWeaver (www.realmacsoftware.com) and Elixer Graphics (www.elixirgraphics.com). Lot's of the nice effects and page-layouts are done with YourHead's (www.yourhead.com) and Loghound's (www.loghound.com) excellent plug-ins.

Update 2016: Loghound sold it's RapidWeaver plug-ins to YourHead Software, the creator of Stacks.