As found on the web (July 23rd)

Liked 2 videos. Shared Mojo SDK available to all Published How to exclude blogposts from your feed I decided to start auto-posting weekly digests of my Lifestream-events to this blog, but wanted to prevent those items from p… Shared HTML5 and The Future of the Web Shared Stoppen. Shared Microsoft eases back on IE 8 … Read more

As found on the web (July 16th)

Liked An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan – If I Were Going Shared MS Office on the Web: What it Is and What it Isn’t Shared Ghost’s operating system comes alive | Business Tech – CNET News Shared Did Digg and YouTube just spell the end of Internet Explorer 6? Shared Mobile Internet … Read more

deredactie.be down, depannage-versie op futtta.be

Het loopt niet zo lekker op deredactie.be; de videozone deed firefox en safari crashen, invalid atom-feeds veroorzaakten stack-traces op http://m.beta.deredactie.be en de hele site is momenteel kapot. Wie op deze blog terechtkomt op zoek naar deredactie; op http://futtta.be/deextractie/mobile.php?deffont=medium kun je tijdelijk de inhoud van deredactie raadplegen. Het is een onafgewerkte (en normalerwijs overbodige) light versie … Read more

Webscene 2009 in 3 quotes and a coffee

As could be expected after having visited the event the past 2 years, I attended Webscene 2009 yesterday. I didn’t “liveblog”, as there really wasn’t enough “hard info” for my likings. Maybe Frederik Marain and Jo Caudron could have changed that perception, but I didn’t make it to their presentation (networking is a bitch). Here’s … Read more

5 reasons why the NMBS should have an API

This weekend I joined the Facebook-group “NMBS should have an API”. The NMBS (or SNCB, for the route planner) and Infrabel (for railtime) have data available that is very relevant for their customers, but this does not really translate in great applications, does it? Wouldn’t it be better for public companies such as the NMBS … Read more

Stop software patents

Really, sign this petition:  If in doubt, just check out some of these European software patents; Webshop: Selling things over a network using a server, client and payment processor, or using a client and a server – EP803105, EP738446, EP1016014 Order by cell phone: Selling over a mobile phone network – EP1090494 Shopping cart: Electronic … Read more

Voorspellingen 2009: browser-oorlog, ook mobiel

Naar aanleiding van de publicatie van de voorspellingen van 20 online experts door Netlash, zijn dit enkele van mijn verwachtingen voor het web in 2009; Uw job als (front-end) webdeveloper (of tester) wordt er door de grotere concurrentie tussen browsers niet eenvoudiger op. Ge zult niet alleen moeten ontwikkelen voor Internet Explorer (het nieuwe IE8, … Read more

Free your content now!

Bert Van Wassenhove considers RSS to still be “a diamond in the rough” which has not yet been picked up by the mainstream public. The reason for this, according to him, is that: [Newspapers] copied their paper/website logic to RSS feeds without adapting it to the medium. As a result, you get long lists of … Read more