With the most recent release (1.5.3, last week) App Engine's Python API for Memcache has added a new feature, Compare-And-Set . This feature... | Continue reading
In 2009 Tantek Çelik published a draft of a new calendar with 5-day-weeks solving issues with the Gregorian one. I am not convinced, that this is a useful way to re-structure the calendar. Back in the days we set up a calendar for our RPG world together with Sebastian Gerstl and … | Continue reading
The Mozilla developers have received some critics for their decision to remove the version number from future Firefox releases. Many other open source projects, like GIMP, are speeding up their release cycles as well, al… | Continue reading
And here I go again. After three years using Sweetcron as my CMS of choice, and one year of WordPress before that, I once more go back to the drawing board and start everything from scratch. After I got into college, I didn’t have any more time to write, and social agreggators we … | Continue reading
This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog ... | Continue reading
Subscription to the e-Bulletin is free of charge. (ENAT Members receive the more detailed Members' e-Bulletin). The mailing list is confidential. ENAT will not disclose or pass on any of your contact details to anyone. Please add or update your contact details using the form … | Continue reading
The question came up quite regularly in the past, what would be an appropriate way to attribute me when using one of the CC-released works. Unfortunately the Creative Commons License itself proves to be no real help here. The license text (as of version 3.0) says: | Continue reading
The Cité de l'espace (City of Space) is a theme park oriented towards space and the conquest of space. It was inaugurated in June 1997 and received more than 4 million visitors after 13 years of exploitation. The park makes it possible to visit full scale models of the rocket Ari … | Continue reading
Founded in 2004, Real Fusio is an innovative SME providing cutting edge expertise and technology in the fields of interactive visualisation of complex digital content for e-learning and communication in the aerospace, energy and industry markets. Placing special emphasis on the c … | Continue reading
I’m a sucker for the monokai color scheme, especially in its Vim theme incarnation molokai. It is easy to imagine, how surprised I was, that this scheme wasn’t ported to a ChatZilla motif yet. After all it exists no… | Continue reading
The Mozilla Doc Sprint in Cincinnati was an extremely interesting event to be. This article sketches the deepest impressions I took home with me. | Continue reading
Two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration of freedom was born | Continue reading
There are several techniques to replace native checkboxes with images. This approach will need no extra markup, degrades gracefully and doesn’t harm a single image. | Continue reading
As of late I'm noticing a trend: I'm spending more time having in-person in-depth conversations, and less time coding. While I regret the la... | Continue reading
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Programmers are lazy. We all are. I think Rails programmers are lazier than others. I mean, Rails is an opinionated software, that’s why we all love it. It has made many choices for us, so we can think about our problems. | Continue reading
PHP has been thrashed a lot over the last years. While many critics are doubtlessly true, it is still the most used server-side language to create the web we use today and it is an easy to learn language to get started w… | Continue reading
For one of my recent projects I looked for simple icons, that are free to use. Well, to put it in a nutshell, I didn’t find, what I was looking for. So I fired up Inkscape and created a set that fits my need. Here it is, simple, plain, monochrome and free to use (a.k.a. in public … | Continue reading
This book doesn’t need an introduction. Obie Fernandez has done an incredibly awesome work with this book, many of us already knew it. Generally, my reviews start with a tiny description of the reviewed book, then go on with considerations grouped by chapter and finish with a gen … | Continue reading
The HTML5 specification lists default CSS rules. The article describes how to revert these. | Continue reading
The article describes a way to mark up syntax highlighted source code with a simple pre element while retaining the advantages of other solutions. | Continue reading
A selection of related background publications by members of the CHESS consortium. Read More... | Continue reading
CHESS is a STREP within the 7th Framework Programme, ICT-2009.4.1: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation, 'Adaptive cultural experiences'. Read More... | Continue reading
Cultural heritage institutions nowadays face the important challenge of making their collections more engaging to visitors, especially the young ‘digital natives’, while exploiting, in new forms of cultural interactive experiences, the recently developed digital libraries. An app … | Continue reading
Due to the earthquake in Japan Lufthansa sent one of their A380 planes to New York instead of Tokyo. Apparently it's too expensive to keep these planes grounded, so they get rerouted across the world in cases like these. It's a very spacious plane, and surprisingly quiet during t … | Continue reading
The EPUB standard is based on several other, well-established technologies. This makes it easy to generate simple ebooks in this format with the standard libraries of many modern languages. I’ll show here a way to do it … | Continue reading
Here is a small introduction to the new Quartz Where feature that was just released as part of the Terracotta 3.5 Enterprise Edition. I’ll be posting another screencast with some demo application benefiting from the feature, including the couple of steps required to migrate the a … | Continue reading
Bart Vander Sanden Freelance app and web developer in Leuven, Belgium Home Web Development Photography Blog English Nederlands Home › Blog › Times Square, New York City in 2011 Times Square, New York City in 2011 Posted on 27 March 2011. About me Hi, I'm Bart, a freelance web dev … | Continue reading