Archive for the ‘ web ’ Category
An idea as brilliant as it is simple: Godblock. A filter to block the violent and “psychologically damaging” content on religious websites. [ READ MORE ]
Last week I have completed a small project for SpangaS, a Dutch television series for teenagers. They are starting their new season on September 13th and wanted a count down on the website. I went the extra mile and made this in Javascript instead of just Rails. [ READ MORE ]
Every now and then I am working on a project that uses subdomains extensively. Up until now I had to use my local hosts file and a bunch of hosts I had to maintain by hand. Tiresome. Now thankfully there’s smackaho.st and the more concisely named lvh.me. These DNS entries point to 127.0.0.1 and have [ READ MORE ]
I am at RailsWayCon 2010 and just enjoyed a pleasant presentation by Jonathan Weiss. He told us about CouchDB as a document store and why it rocks. [ READ MORE ]
I just discovered this page, which presumably opts me out from receiving targeted ads. Yey! No idea if this actually works, but seems like a good idea. [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday I promised to blog about my work with HTML5 and a major .nl website. The website in question is radio1.nl and early this morning I relaunched the site. Response has been very positive so far. [ READ MORE ]
Last year, unobtrusive javascript really hit the scene and my sites no exception. I’ve been perfecting the technique to show an mp3 audio player, which I have debuted at radio6.nl this week. It’s a tiny bit of Javascript with a big help from jQuery. [ READ MORE ]
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It’s one of the most tedious aspects of my job: cross-browser testing. Meaning: see if the stuff I have developed looks the same in all browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari and -ick- IE too). Luckily this can be automated, saving me lots of headaches and lots of different computers. Ta-daa! Litmusapp. [ READ MORE ]
For once a web app not done by me, although I did the single-sign-on in the back end. The Z@PPmixer is all new and improved. It’s a tool (FOR KIDS) to create online mashups of video, images and sound and share them with others. Top voted mixes are broadcast on national TV. [ READ MORE ]