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Dropbox on Your Own Server

Frank Groeneveld — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:21:57 +0000

I've always liked Dropbox, except for one thing: I don't trust them with my data. Also, it seems wrong to pay $ 10,00 for 50 GB of storage when you have your own server with much more storage and available on a fast network.

Well, finally there is a solution. It's called SparkleShare and it's completely open source and uses Git as a backend. Today they released a very early alpha version and I tried it out immediately. After having some trouble with the interface (you need to insert / in the folder input box if you use Github), everything worked great. However, I don't advice anybody to use it in production. It's still in development and can contain serious bugs. I can't wait till it gets more mature and ready for production usage!

Crawljax 1.8 released

Frank Groeneveld — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:32:58 +0000

I'm working on a cool project for my master thesis: Crawljax. Crawljax is a website crawler that supports JavaScript. This is done by opening a real browser such as Firefox and controlling it via WebDriver. The core of Crawljax does only that: crawling websites. However, there is a very flexible plugin system available that allows you to do all kinds of cool things such as creating a static mirror of an AJAX website or creating test suites for you AJAX webapplications.

Download Crawljax now and give it a try!

To get a better grasp of what is possible, have a look at the Google Tech Talk a colleague of mine did:

WordPress 2.9 released

Frank Groeneveld — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:15:42 +0000

WordPress 2.9 was just released. All in all this seems to be a great release again, including some features I had been looking forward to:

Easier bulk plugin upgrades
In browser image editing
A trash for posts you remove, so you can undo it if necessary

Upgrade now!