Archive for August, 2009
Only a handful of people know I used to be big in the demo scene. So consider this my demo-outing. What is a demo? It’s a small computer program showing shapes, sounds, textures and graphics. Demos rock because they do unbelievable amounts of stuff in very tiny files. I’ve embedded a video of one particular [ READ MORE ]
Tis the time of year for lotsa restyled websites! Yes, I have been keeping busy. My aunt’s physical therapy shop Fysiodeurloo is the first to kick off this year’s round of fresh new websites. It’s a pretty standard Wordpress-as-a-CMS website, but does its job very well and is a huge step up from the previous [ READ MORE ]
You heard it here first: Sony TriStar (the movie distributor) wants you to illegaly download their latest film: District 9. Why? Because there are two months between first release in USA and release in Europe. [ READ MORE ]
A security vulnerability was discovered in Wordpress 2.8.3 recently. If you look at the flaw in question, I can’t believe people are still using PHP to publish websites. If you still do, you should be beaten with a stick. Let’s gloat about why Ruby (on Rails) is better, point by point. [ READ MORE ]
Oh yeah … Rails 3 controllers are starting to look real good. All the RESTful magic will be switched on full throttle, and I can’t wait to start using it. [ READ MORE ]
ZOMG! Check out this page entirely in HTML5. /me likey [ READ MORE ]
As an Amsterdammer, and soon to be living-in-the-center-of-Amsterdammer, a trend of our city’s municipality worries me. This is the trend to make Amsterdam squeeky clean, disallow anything fun, noisy and dirty and turn this old town into an amusement park. This is why I endorse Ai! Amsterdam which aims to change some of the absurd [ READ MORE ]