I’ve been lucky enough to to be involved in the Z@ppelin iPad app as the back-end programmer. The app has seen tremendous success and is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) apps from the Dutch public broadcasters.
Every once in a while I post about cool plugins essential for Rails development, on the off chance you haven’t discovered them by yourself. Here’s the latest installment.
There’s plenty of talk about CSS3 and HTML5, but really implementing it all is something else. Thanks to my good friends at xhtmlized and a very forward-looking customer, www.zapp.nl is now at the forefront of web browser technology.
Most of geocities.com has been released as a torrent. All 900 GB of it. I can’t decide what intrigues me the most: that apparently I could put all of geocities on a spare harddisk or that some clown board member destroyed fifteen years of internet culture without even blinking.
Very strange things are happening. Not pigs flying, even stranger. Adobe have released a very awesome HTML5 video player with Flash fallback. It’s open source, degrades gracefully and has clean, standards-based code! WTF.
I just tested it myself and — gasp — it works! I don’t need to cut off my balls now. Apparently there is hope for mankind.
Every year, the Cinekid festival is held in Amsterdam. It’s a film festival/multimedia event for children. This year, there is a tie-in with ‘my’ Z@PP which lets you vote for your favorite film online. Continue reading
Nivo. Dude’s not lying.
Ideas worth sharing: Chrome Experiments are examples of cutting-edge browser technology. They are built using standard and open tools. Since everything is open for all to see, I have a sneaking suspicion there’s going to be a massive amount of innovation in a few years.
I am not a big fan of Facebook. As a matter of fact, I think people who post their entire private life will pay a price some time in the future. Continue reading