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This is the personal web page of Martijn van Zal, a 29 year old software engineer, co-owner and CTO of a new media company called Brothers in art. We specialize in large scale online communities using highly scalable and mostly open source technologies like Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat), Apache, PHP, MySQL, Memcached, MogileFS. I like experimenting with and working with services as Amazon EC2 and S3, Encoding.com and I'm currently learning to create iPhone/iPad apps.

Lifestream

Today we started the fourth season of Dexter

iPhone video streaming from Drupal's file system

How to stream media files to viewers using an iPhone

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Facebook releases HipHop for php, a php to c++ source code transormer developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen

This is a very special "artwork" that repeatedly tries to sell itself on ebay. If you win it, you own it until it decides to move on again.

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Apples newest creation isn't a smaller computer. They created a really big iPhone! But Ok... I admit... I still gotta have one.

Movie

1 week ago

thumbCloudy with a Chance of Meatballs [2009]

Simple story but very funny... Nice to see Mr. T again albeit in animated form :) » IMDB (7.3)

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» Twitpic - Yesterday my car was squeaky clean. Now it looks like this :( Note to self: check the weather report before washi

Cleaned the house - check!, washed the car - check!, next on list: grocery shopping...

Why do the batteries the smoke detector near your bed always go empty in the middle of the @!?&+ing night?

Movie

2 weeks ago

thumbSherlock Holmes [2009]

We've been to the cinema tonight to see Sherlock Holmes. Beautiful movie, with a funny moment every now and then.» IMDB (7.7)

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Had a very nice day in the zoo today! Saw a baby elephant, a baby lion, a baby monkey, and lots more :) » Pictures

Album

3 weeks ago

RT @dexmans, @TechCrunch: Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/15/twitt...28TechCrunch%29

Wrote my first iPhone app today! It didn't do anything useful and I still have a LOT to learn about Objective-C, Cacoa, etc, but it's a step

30 Irreplaceable Chrome Extensions

Nice list of chrome extensions.

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Made a huge pan of "snert" (typical Dutch pea soup) today... » Twitpic

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Just bought some new green oxygen generators for our office. » Twitpic

50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

Smashing Magazine has a great article which present 50 useful PHP tools that can significantly improve your programming workflow. Among other things, you’ll find a plethora of libraries and classes that aid in debugging, testing, profiling and code-authoring in PHP.

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-8 degrees celsius when i woke up this morning, and a thick layer of ice on the inside of my car's windscreen :( » Twitpic

Check me out in C-Mon & Kypski's new music video: : OneFrameOfFame.com/3444 Got a webcam? Then you can be in it too! #ofof

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Making frozen margaritas... » Twitpic

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Cleaning up the christmas stuff. I've got more needles on the floor than on the tree :) » Twitpic

Happy new year! Best wishes for 2010.

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Funny on youtube: JibJab - Never a year like '09: » Youtube

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