March 22nd, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Yesterday i went shopping for two child car seats. The store i went to first didn’t have the brand i was looking for. So i entered childrenstore into google search on my mobile phone. To my surprise it showed me the results sorted by distance. First time i used google’s location aware search. Very [...]
March 13th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
I just watched this presentation by Tim Berners-Lee on linked data where he’s basically requesting everybody to turn the internet into one big database: RAW DATA NOW! He wants everybody to publish data on the internet, not just documents and applications. Being able to access raw data, without an application shielding it, and limiting your [...]
February 24th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Think you need flash to create a good looking scalable interactive chart on your webpage? Think again. Raphaël is a small javascript library that can be used to generate svg graphics, embedded in your html page. Here’s an example chart: Analytics. Pretty nice. The homepage has a number of impressive svg demos. Code examples can [...]
February 23rd, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Here’s a presentation i did last year, but it seems appropriate to repost, as it makes the same statement as Diego Doval makes in his post what “web 2.0″ really means — and why “web 3.0″ will never come.
I my presentation i made the same point that Diego is making:
Web 2.0 apps are different from [...]
February 4th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Just a simple tip, if you’re just starting out with css. I see a lot of html developers adding ids or class names on every html tag they want to target in their stylesheet. This is really not necessary. You can combine tags in your css rules.
Simple example: suppose you want to style your input [...]