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In the Netherlands ‘Flair’ is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun’s dictionary it will be:
A self-supporting web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript
Couldn’t find much about it, but they seem to deem it the successor of the current AJAX model…. I’m curious… since it’s still Javascript…
Will […]

Finalist managed to reach the second place in the ‘Development Tools’ content using Ruby on Rails. More about this on our corporate website here (Dutch).
I think this is an excellent achievement and like to congratulate Remco and Michiel on it!
I’d really like to use tools which feel as competitive as Rails on a daily bases, […]

Today Google managed to lose all my bookmarks and most of the RSS feeds I configured on my personalized homepage. Since there is now way to backup your homepage this means they’re just lost now. I’m not the only one suffering from this problem; one of my colleagues preceded me in losing everything he’d put […]

While using Compass in the complex environment of our current project we ran into some rather nasty problems; some of the related to bugs in the Compass codebase. Currently we’ve got it all setup and running, and apart from some performance issues (simple queries taking 16 seconds!) it all seems fine.
But since word got out […]

The most annoying ‘feature’ of my OSX system used to be the speed of the cursor when moved using the arrow keys. Not anymore… OSX seems to have a global configuration (yes, all you macheadz probably did this the first time you started your macbook) to control the key repeat rate and repeat delay:

The responsiveness […]

Finally a post about the season Spring instead of the framework. Apart from the occasional stroke of pollinosis I’m really enjoying the first rays of sun (and the first SAS BBQ of the year last weekend). And since my son learned how to walk and enjoy playing at playgrounds I’ve got even more reasons to […]

As always I’m a bit behind in actually using all this greate web 2.0 stuff. Most of my colleagues at the VPRO have been using Twitter for a while now, but I was still a bit skeptical.
Erwin has a nice (Dutch) post trying to explain the point of twitter; but for techs: the way it […]

Today our new car radio arrived. With the upcoming arrival of our new car in mind we decided to make another step in abandoning the use of CDs. Previously we’ve setup a solution for the living room using a uPNP capable network storage device in combination with a uPNP player. The only reason to keep […]

What a busy week I it was!
This week:

I started dieting, I’ve got to loose some weight
I managed to get my part in the project back on track after Arne was taken of the project
I prepared (and presented) a presentation on the how/what/why of the CTO board for quarterly company meeting
I tried to figure out the […]