2010: the year Flash became irrelevant

My 2nd prediction for 2010 (the first one being ‘offline is the new online‘): the glory days of Flash are over. The reason for this is twofold; the mobile web and the strong advances “open web” technology is making. Open web moving in, fast Remember the days when everybody wanted to spice up otherwise dull … Read more

Google Webmaster Tools Irony

A couple of days ago Google launched Site Performance as a labs project in Google Webmaster Tools. Being obsessed with speed is great and there indeed are valid remarks for this blog, but what to think of the advice below: That’s right, I really should gzip-compress those javascript-resources! Google, please give me access to your … Read more

As found on the web (November 17th)

Shared Launching the Jetpack Gallery. Liked 2 videos. Shared iPhone or Droid. Shared On Middle Men. Shared Android 2.0 source released, already ported to the G1. Shared 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases. Published Voorspelling 2010: offline is het nieuwe online. Shared Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 1 released. Shared a proposal: resource packages to … Read more

Impatiently flashing my HTC Hero into shape

I’m an impatient man, so although I heard rumors that Mobistar might be testing the HTC Hero update (which is Belgium-specific, as the YouTube application has to be removed because of privacy law concerns), I decided to go the “less official” way and root and flash the darn thing myself. The process was pretty easy … Read more

Fun with RFP’s: organizing a RAD-race

Selecting a good (web-)application development partner is not an easy task. Between writing your RFP, reading offers, organizing Q&A-sessions, commercial and juridical negotiations, … it’s easy to lose sight of what is most important: finding someone with the right tools and the right knowledge and experience to efficiently build (web-)applications. That is why (at work) … Read more

Trading eAccelerator for APC

Yesterday I somewhat reluctantly removed eAccelerator from my server (Debian Etch) and installed APC instead. Not because I wasn’t satisfied with performance of eAccelerator, but because the packaged version of it was not in the Debian repositories (Andrew McMillan provided the debs), and those debs weren’t upgraded at the same pace and thus broke my … Read more

Firefox 3rc1 shines in Javascript benchmark

As the official release of Firefox 3 is getting closer, with Release Candidate 1 being available since May 17th, I decided to boldly go where codinghorror has gone before and do a quick-and-dirty Javascript-performance comparison of the different browsers I’ve got installed on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop, using Webkit’s Sunspider benchmark. Let’s start with … Read more

Are you doing Web2.0 the wrong way?

According to Jakob Nielsen, jumping on the web2.0-bandwagon often implies adding unneeded complexity instead of getting the basics right. I tend to agree; in our quest for sexier, more responsive web-sites and -applications, we seem to easily forget boring stuff such as accessibility and sometimes even usability. How much time did it take you to … Read more

About:blazingbetabrowsers

Dat er precies iets (heel snel) beweegt in browserland: Apple heeft Safari 3 voor Windows (eindelijk) uit beta gehaald. Je kunt versie 3.1 van de Apple-site downloaden, er is nog heel wat gewijzigd ten opzichte van 3.0.4b. Opera timmert bescheiden verder aan hun innovatieve browser, versie 9.5b ziet er zeker niet slecht uit, changelog staat … Read more