Second Place Mobile Dev Camp

My iPhone app Canned Openers won second prize at the Mobile Dev Camp Hackathon. I won a Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset for my iPhone.

Canned Openers displays random conversation openers to help you getting started in fun conversations with future friends.

The …

Front End on Rails slides online

Yesterday at the Amsterdam.rb meeting I did a presentation on Haskell Front End on Rails.

Here are the presentation slides:
Front End on Rails

And for those of you that prefer a pdf file I have the pdf version of Front End on Rails presentation.

TVnotify

Recently I launched TVnotify.com. TVnotify is a website that will send you notifications via RSS/E-mail and more, whenever a new episode of your favorite TV show airs.

The website was born out of frustration with the writers strike and the confusion that led from …

Social network annihilation week

It's officially social network annihilation week over here at Juice10. All social networks that bug me get one last trip to the site so I can trash my account.

Its really simple, if a social network (or any other site) bugs me without enriching my life I remove my …

Guide to Installing Hieraki2

Yesterday I tried installing Hieraki2 but because of the lack of documentation if found myself bumping into bugs and unforseen issues. So now for everyone wanting to install Hieraki2 here is what you have to do:

What do I need?

• Mysql 4.1 or higher


• Ruby 1.8.2 …

Amigo Launched

The web service Amigo by Carson Workshops has been launched and Bare Naked App the blog where they described how they where building it has put in its last post.

Amigo is a service that matches advertisers with online newsletters, and vice versa. It's free to …

HappyClog Meeting 28 oktober 2006

Tomorrow is the third Happy Clog meeting in Utrecht. And I'm there. You could be too!

The meeting will be held in King Arthur at 15:00 and the following will be some of the topics discussed:

Topics

• The Happy Clog website


• Webstandards and eductaion


• Where …

Semantic Spam-Proof Email Display

After deleting quite a bit of spam from my inbox I came up with a semantic way of displaying email addresses on a HTML page.

The concept is very simple, you add text within a <del> element to an email address needs to be removed from in order to show the real …

Happy Clog Meeting 17 februari 2007

The Dutch Webstandards group is having another meeting.

Check out the wiki entry or the Google groups entry.

I hope to see you all there!

Great news: New Dutch Accessibility Law

On 1 September last 2006 the new Dutch law on the quality of government websites went into effect. Read all ppk's notes over at Quirksmode.

This is a great milestone for webstandards in the Netherlands.

Get to know me

After Wilfred Nas passed me the ball I am now also going to share five things about me that you probably don't know or care about :)

• I'm a fashiongeek/metrogeek.


• I love drawing illustrations in Illustrator and I have been doing this since I was seven.


• I'm a …

Safari 3 Beta launched! (also for Windows)

Apple has released Safari 3 in beta to the public, running both on Mac OS X and on Windows. Its jam packed with all kind of cool CSS3 stuff. But that is not the only thing.

Form control elements

The webkit team has enabled the styling of form elements.

• Rules …

Dutch Guild of Front-Enders meeting this evening

Today is a busy day for the hard core web community members here in the Netherlands. This morning I attended the Amsterdam OpenCoffee Meetup. It was packed compared to last week, probably because there wasn't any lethal weather this time ;)

And this evening is the …

IE removes object/embed activation click

The now launched preview of Internet Explorer will not require you to "click to activate" before being able to interact with object/embed elements (Flash, etc.)

The guys over at Microsoft have removed the click to activate after striking a deal with Eolas …