This isn’t the book I’d choose to review to begin this blog. It’s simply the most recent book I’ve read (not counting the brilliant The Secret Scripture, which I am reading right now). I read Alex Barclay’s first book, Darkhouse, and found it disappointing. If I did read The Call … | Continue reading
Nothing is more pleasing than beautiful code. And nothing is more heart-breaking than watching beautiful code get destroyed. Lately, I’ve been paying particular attention to SOLID Object Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their interaction with TDD. I’m finding that, while TD … | Continue reading
Sometimes, special tasks require unusual measures. It was obvious that we needed to move the development of wfDynamic, webfactory’s content management framework, a big step forward. So in December 2008 the webfactory team headed to an apartment in the Austrian mountains for a wee … | Continue reading
webfactory has always been about creating highly usable and accessible websites, keeping a close watch on web standards and the POSH paradigm. This September we finally decided it was time to start preaching what we practice. So you say, „Dude, get real! It’s 2008! Web standards … | Continue reading
Okay, enthusiasm may have gotten the better of me when I was punching in this entry's title. But even when you're doing what every frontend engineer hates by default – testing and retesting your page in the major browsers known to mankind – there are a few tools that can really m … | Continue reading
I’ve presented at this year’s Jazoon conference on Hölchoko, a framework for distributing the persistence of your JPA domain models to multiple clients. While the project itself is not where I would have expected it to be by now, I’ve finished enough of the demos to show what the … | Continue reading
Full Members may be persons or entities who show their interest for the objectives of the association and who wish to support it or take part in its activities. Full Members must be accepted as such by the Board of Directors based on a written application. Full membership is avai … | Continue reading
Associate membership is available to private enterprises, public administrations, organisations under public law, academic institutions, professional bodies, non-governmental organisations, social cooperatives, private foundations and individuals. Associate membership is the mos … | Continue reading
I’ve just quickly hacked a fullscreen monitor for our continuous integration server at work. As for my personal projects, we use Hudson, which has a nice restful xml API.This small utility asks for the url of your Hudson server and retrieves all the jobs and their status. You can … | Continue reading
The ENAT Statutes are the rules which govern the organisation of the ENAT non-profit association. They were written on 14 February 2008 by the founding members of ENAT, in conformance with the Belgian legislation governing non-profit associations. ENAT is registered in Belgium as … | Continue reading
Short biographies of the ENAT Board of Directors, 2017. President: Annagrazia Laura, Italy Vice Presidents: Jesús Hernández Galán, Spain and Spyros Michailidis, Greece Treasurer: Mieke Broeders, Belgium Managing Director: Ivor Ambrose, UK and Greece Director: Marco Pizzio, … | Continue reading
ENAT National Coordinators have been established in several European countries. Their contact details are listed on this page. For information about ENAT in other countries, see: ENAT National Coordinators (Board Members) in Europe ENAT has also appointed representati … | Continue reading
Photo of Annagrazia Laura, ENAT President, elected June 2013 The 27th of September each year marks the celebration of the UNWTO World Tourism Day.In 2016 this date is particularly significant since, for the first time, the theme of the day is Accessible Tourism. This is having a … | Continue reading
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Earlier this week I’ve received the Javalobby newsletter featuring an article by Antonio Goncalves on Why are we not using Java EE 5? While there is much to be discussed on the subject, I’ve been thinking about his statement on testing :Testing a Java EE 5 application is definite … | Continue reading
I have been continuing my work on integrating Beans Binding (JSR 295) and the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) with the work I have been doing on providing a JPA enabled HMVC framework for Swing developers. I must already say that getting to the information on how to exactly … | Continue reading
That’s it JavaPolis is over. It was a great success again and completely sold out weeks before it actually began… It was a great opportunity for me to catch up with old friends and time to make some new. The French speaking community was pretty present and I was really pleased to … | Continue reading
Just downloading developer preview 8 from the ADC Member Site. Apple just made my day! | Continue reading
Web design has come a long way. We strive to play the game in adherence to Standards, we separate structure from presentation as much as possible and we have taken into our hearts the fact that indeed the Experience is the Product. Or have we? A core ambition of website designers … | Continue reading
I am back from my Oslo trip. JavaZone 2007 was again a great success! The exhibition hall was much bigger than the hotel lobby last year, much more decorated and with even more people attending! Still it remained a very enjoyable event… I had a really great time and many possibil … | Continue reading
The ENAT Newsletter was first produced as a series of PDF documents, for downloading, during 2007. We now send out an E-Bulletin to members and subscribers. It is free of charge and goes out to all those who are interested in the latest developments in Accessible Tourism. ENAT M … | Continue reading
The tourism sector already has many examples of good practice which are helping to making travel and tourism accessible for all. These examples must be better known and used by the industry in order to bring about innovation and improvements on a wider scale. The cases shown on … | Continue reading
ENAT News items are listed here, with the most recent news first. | Continue reading
General Information ENAT is a non-profit association, registered in Belgium. According to the terms of the Belgian legislation there are two membership categories: “Associate Members” (membres adhérents) and “Full Members” (membres effectifs). The members must be physical person … | Continue reading
Go directly to headings on this page: ENAT Board Members Honorary Members ENAT Full Members ENAT National Coordinators ENAT was established in January 2006 as a project-based initiative of nine sponsoring organisations in six EU Member States. The European Commission, DG Employm … | Continue reading
ENAT Partners ENAT works in partnership with major organisations in tourism and related sectors to help deliver its messages more widely, develop new services and carry out joint projects and initiatives. We are honoured to list the following partners and sponsors and we encourag … | Continue reading
Welcome to the Website of ENAT - the European Network for Accessible Tourism. ENAT is a non-profit association for organisations that aim to be 'frontrunners' in the study, promotion and practice of accessible tourism. You may be an expert or new to the area - in either c … | Continue reading
ENAT Registration To become a member of ENAT, click the link in the "Members Area" - Sign up now! You will be guided through the registration process. Pay the ENAT Membership Fee After registering you must pay the Membership Fee, from € 25 to € 150 per year, depending on your & … | Continue reading
This page displays general event information including past and future ENAT events and Events hosted by our Members and partners in Europe and around the world. If you wish to make an Event announcement to the ENAT Community please contact the ENAT editor. The ENAT - Google Acces … | Continue reading
ENAT Registration To become a member of ENAT, go to the Members' Area on the left of the Home Page: click the link, "Sign up now" and create a new account. You will be guided through the registration process. Pay the ENAT Membership Fee After registering you must pay the Membersh … | Continue reading
That’s finally it I’m slowly moving my blog away from jroller.com. I’ve had enough of all the troubles. Besides this website will also host a few projects I’m currently working on… Still need some time to get everything done: migrating my jroller content to this blog, importing t … | Continue reading
Jesse Jackson, Nina Simone, B.B. King and 100,000 spectators gathered for a concert worth remembering | Continue reading
Taking 'Best in Show' at the Northern Plains Tribal Art Show, the 2002 beadwork tableau is held in the collections of the American Indian Museum | Continue reading
Just got word that Lowe's, Whirlpool, and the U.S. EPA Energy Star program will search this summer for the country's 10 most energy-inefficient families. The lucky winners will receive a home energy makeover "to lower their monthly bills and help save the environment" and a retur … | Continue reading