Stefan Arentz

I’ve bought a subscription to Python Magazine. It’s a pretty nice magazine and I enjoy reading it. It always teaches me some new tricks.
I was a little dissapointed about the Iterators, Iterables and Generators article in this month’s issue though. The author does not seem to have interpreted the Python Iterator Types documentation very well. […]

We had hoped for this to be a christmas present but it arrived yesterday instead: our immigration application for moving from Amsterdam to Toronto has basically been approved and finalized! All that is left is some standard paperwork. This means that we will now start making concrete plans for the big move.

Looking back at a year of too much code and traveling, here are some things worth mentioning about Polar Rose.
Like most startups we struggled a while to figure out our mission, vision and product roadmap. After a couple of interesting attempts we settled on being an application platform. Through the web site, firefox extension and […]

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While I’m enjoying my holiday in sunny southern california, drinking peach margaritas, my hard working collegues in icey Warsaw and Malmö have put a GREAT new version of the Polar Rose web site online!

This new release is a major accomplishment for us because it is the first time we are showing off our Face Matching […]

The friendly folks from Webtide, home of Jetty, have released a final version of Hightide, their ‘Pro’ supercharged version of the most excellent Jetty 6.1 web container.
Hightide includes many components that you frequently need in Web 2.0 / AJAX-centric web applications. ActiveMQ is integrated for example. Hightide also comes with a high performance Cometd/Bayeux server.
Hightide […]

I did not have a change to attend the WWDC this year so I was excited when I read that Apple was organizing ‘Leopard Tech Days’ around the world. Including in my home town, Amsterdam!
It was organized at the Hilton and they took good care of us. Nice breakfast buffet, nice lunch. Hilton Amsterdam style: […]

Good news for people who have been waiting for Apple to release Java6. Landon Fuller has just released his Developer Preview Release 2 for Leopard and Tiger.
This is huge because it finally allows OS X users to get their hands on Java6 without having to run it under Windows or Linux in VMWare or […]