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Author Archives: Jochem
Recommended: migrate from apache to nginx
During the last couple of weeks I was having issues with the load on my webservers. The problems were mainly caused by Apache eating a lot of memory. As Apache was already pretty much optimized and I didn’t feel like … Continue reading
Book review: Maverick by Ricardo Semler
There’s a reason for this being the first book review posted on my blog: this book should definitely be on the reading-list of every entrepreneur or manager. I think Ricardo Semler is a true visionary regarding organizational structure and I … Continue reading
Introducing Tweepz
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some evening-hours on a new project called Tweepz. It actually started when I noticed that it is rather difficult to find people on twitter which might be interesting to follow. Twitter’s … Continue reading
The iPhone vs the old phones
Just came across this funny movie about the iPhone’s attitude…
Searching through video’s with speech-to-text
Speech recognition is one of those technologies which has been around for quite a while, but has not yet found it’s way to large-scale utilization in the industry. Yes, we’ve probably all talked to a computer of the airline reservation … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Research, Search, Software
Tagged exalead, Search, speech to text, video
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Mobile device detection with PHP: 2 methods compared
I’ve been working on a mobile version of the (dutch) translation website I founded. Apart from releasing the mobile site itself, it’s of course also important to make people aware of the existence of it. That’s exactly the reason why … Continue reading
New exalead website and product offering
Yesterday Exalead released a new website, great compliment to my colleague’s who worked on this project. I think the new site is a huge improvement compared to the old one and it provides a perfect overview of Exalead’s (new) product … Continue reading
Lifehack: use Gmail to manage your tasks
I have this habit to send myself an email to remind me of something. I do this for everyday tasks, things I need to buy or things I want to read when I have some spear time. The problem however … Continue reading
Leaving ilse
After 4,5 years at ilse media I have decided to leave the company and start with a new challenge. To be honest, it took me quite some time to make this decision. I’ve always loved working at ilse and I … Continue reading
How to open up the social web
The social part of the web is a hot topic these days. We see a development in which a lot of webapplications are incorporating some way of social interaction with friends, collegues or family. New applications arrived which enable us … Continue reading
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