http://blog.markprins.com A developers point of view Thu, 27 May 2010 12:25:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while ago when I was working on a Freelance project for Fabrique I noticed that Martijn (former colleague, college companion and friend) was reading "The 4-hour Workweek" (by Timothy Ferris). As I was intrigued by the title I asked what it is about.  As he explained I was immediately ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/04/22/stop-being-lived-and-live/ On March 30th, I went to "Star Wars in Concert" in Antwerpen, Belgium. An Impressive StarWars event where a great symphonic orchestra plays the well known tunes from the Star Wars saga. All of it accompanied with a lot of scenes from all six of the movies, a great light ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/04/06/star-wars-in-concert-a-concert-or-a-movie/ Just once in a while you come across a movie which doesn't need special effects, cgi or  a superb soundtrack. It can solely rely on a story. "The Man from Earth" is one of those fascinating movies. A tantalizing story which triggers your imagination and will keep doing so, even ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/02/11/movie-review-the-man-from-earth-verdict-8-5/ After some hard work we have finally gone beta with our service: RerouteMAIL. A service with which you can easily run a mailserver even if your ISP actively blocks port 25. A while ago I posted about some wild idea's where you could go around the SMTP block of your ISP ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/20/howto-run-a-mailserver-even-if-your-isp-blocks-smtp-port-25/ It really is everywhere! Until now, in every company I have worked for, I have seen it. Projects fail to hit their deadline. And total anarchy emerges from the ashes of those failures. Save yourself (or your company) while you can and learn from the top 10 list of reasons ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/14/10-reasons-why-projects-fail-or-dont-hit-their-deadline/ After a few day's cool down (christmas, new year's eve and a nice long weekend) we can plunge ourselves back into real life and into the new year! I would like to wish everyone the very best for 2010! I hope everyone will have a great, healthy and prosperous year! I am looking ... http://blog.markprins.com/2010/01/03/all-the-best-wishes-for-2010/ I had "Das Experiment" on my To-Watch list for a few months now. It was recommended by a friend of mine after discussing some things which are related to the experiment depicted in the movie. The movie is based on an actual experiment which was conducted back in the 70's. ... http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/22/movie-review-das-experiment/ "9"... A title which does not describe much at all. So I looked it up on IMDB to get a bit of an idea of what this movie is about. An animation/SciFi movie, rated 7.1, and staring the voice of Elijah Wood. It triggered something in me, so I placed ... http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/17/movie-review-9/ You might recognise the problem. You have a close friend group and you do lots of things together. So when you go out,  or go to the movies you decide that you'll pay something, and the others pay other stuff and you dont realy worry about the money. They are ... http://blog.markprins.com/2009/12/13/the-money-problem-with-friend-groups-nah-ill-pay-pay-me-back-later/ For a while I used a custom layout for my blog. It is probably something everybody else already figured out ages ago... But, maintaining a custom layout just takes too much time to keep it up to date. Not to mention to keep it compatible with all the features in ... http://blog.markprins.com/2009/11/19/decided-not-to-use-the-custom-layout-anymore/