Posted Google admits Buzz testing flaws. Posted HTC Friend Stream Adds Social Aggregation to Sense UI. Posted Hands-on with the HTC Legend (with video). Liked 2 videos. Posted RIM shows off the new WebKit-powered BlackBerry browser. Frank thuis -> vpn -> office communicator met collega’s in 2 locaties -> buitenbellen naar leverancier = very nifty … Read more
Being “the computer guy” in the family might be a pain in the ass sometimes, but trying to help out users that are not tech savvy can be very revealing. Yesterday my father-in-law asked me to take a look at his computer, there was something about the browser that was not right. Turned out he … Read more
Update 02-2015: the information below does not reflect the way AddToAny works now and as such only has historical value, read this comment by the developer for more info. When looking at my blog’s performance in Google Webmaster Tools I saw Google complained of multiple dns-lookups. I knew about stats.wordpress.com, google-analytics.com (well, yeah …) and … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Firefox 3.1 is just around the corner and I’ve been using the beta’s for a couple of months now, but I didn’t really feel the urge to write about it up until now. But with things heating up between Google Chrome (already out of beta!), Safari and Firefox and with new versions of MS Internet … Read more
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