Author Archives: David van Enckevort

About David van Enckevort

Even though I'm a Classical Archaeologist by education I work as a Scientific Programmer and Project Leader for the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center (NBIC).

Maven 3 and the versions dilemma

Posted on April 10, 2011 by David van Enckevort

Like many companies NBIC uses Maven to build  Java projects and manage the dependencies of the projects. Especially in combination with IDEs like Netbeans that understand Maven projects you have a powerful tool to quickly get started with your project … Continue reading →

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Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5 for IPv6

Posted on February 27, 2011 by David van Enckevort

With the last 5 /8 blocks of IP addresses being issued it is time to make your systems available through IPv6 if you haven’t done so yet. This short post shows how to configure a Centos or Red Hat Enterprise … Continue reading →

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Setting up VNC desktop sharing

Posted on February 3, 2011 by David van Enckevort

In this post I show what you need to setup your own conference server with the use of VNC and Skype. Continue reading →

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OpenJDK on the Mac

Posted on November 16, 2010 by David van Enckevort

Apple surprised us with the announcement that their Java port is deprecated and soon after announce the OpenJDK project. This post discusses some critical questions we should ask about the OpenJDK for Mac port. Continue reading →

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Hacking the Safari search engine

Posted on September 23, 2009 by David van Enckevort

How to use Apache to change the search engine used by the Safari search box. Introduction On my Mac I prefer to use the Safari web browser, because it is fast and well integrated into the system. However there is … Continue reading →

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