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VMware Workstation Listen to voice of the customer

Thijs Lensselink — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:37:27 +0000

A while back i was contacted by Vijay Laxmi. Vijay is a Sr Partner Marketing Manager over at Zend Technologies. And she was interested in doing a podcast like interview about the brand new and shiny VMWare & Zend Studio integration. And because i am a big fan of this feature. I didn’t see why not. So we had a few chat sessions. Along the way Joshua Solomin from Zend and Michael Paiko from VMWare joined the party. And after some preparation we recorded the session. Considering i have never been much of a speaker. This was quite fun to do.

Michael send me the end result. And everybody seemed happy with it. After that life resumed and i have been incredibly busy every since. So i kinda forgot about the whole thing. Till Vijay mailed me today (ty! Vijay). VMWare put the recording on their website. And a customer mailing has been transmitted over the wire. Cool stuff!

2011-02-07 VMware-Zend VOC Podcast

end year notice

Thijs Lensselink — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:38:33 +0000

Have been working hard this week on kremermakelaars.nl. And managed to finish it right before the end of this year. The old website was one of those left overs from the early 90′s. The only thing missing was a spinning @ sign. But i think i managed to give it a nice visual boost. For the back-end i created s nice CMS to manage all objects and page content. The whole thing is build with ZF, Mysql, and some javascript libraries.

The customer is happy. I’m happy. Now it’s time for some fun!

So that’s all for 2009. I wish everybody a good and happy new year.

A new adventure part II

Thijs Lensselink — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:10:44 +0000

This post is a recap of a post i made earlier this month. Normally i would leave it as it is. But i wasn’t really happy with the outcome. And it didn’t really reflect the current situation. So here goes.

As the technological challenge in my current day to day job started to decline. I started to think this was not the right position for me. So i decided it was time to search for something new. And at that time i could not find anything interesting that didn’t include relocating my self to an other part of this world. This left me with a hard choice to make. But i left AddMissions anyway. With a good feeling though. I had have a great year there. Now was just time for a change.

All that was about two months ago. And for the past time i have been doing some freelance projects to pay my bills. And although i enjoyed the time working from home. I feel it is time again to go and search for a new opportunity. I learned a lot from the past two months but freelance work is not something i tend to do full time. I need people around me. Even though i don’t talk that much while i work :)

I have some things cooking at the moment. Let’s see what the new year has to offer.

0x.vc URL shortener service

Thijs Lensselink — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:14:18 +0000

Having a hard time getting to sleep tonight. And was browsing my domain list. when i realized i still have this very short domain name that is just sitting there collecting dust. And since these URl shortener services are so hot lately i decided to roll my own.

So three hours, a bit of code and a short domain name later i present : 0x.vc (it’s shorter) It’s probably still full of holes and prone to XSS attacks. So be careful!