Following a post on FOK! on experiences with itailoronline.com, I considered the low pricing (< €20) and gave this site a go. Configuring a shirt went fairly easy, although I didn’t try out all options. Doing some googling I found Youtailor.eu which offers more options, but at 4 times the price ITailor offered it shirts [...]

Introduction I am not under the impression that what we are doing here is rocket science, but might be nice to share anyway. Lets first elaborate a bit on the situation at hand. At my current client Backbase is used in a progressive enhancement kind of way: <!– Backbase Library –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”core/4_3_1/engine/backbase.js”></script> <!– [...]

In a discussion on Yammer it seems that merely 30 years ago the vision was to have 30 engineers around the globe writing services that others would use. The concept might be working if you increase the number of engineers 10 to 100 fold. Most important however it seems that even though we discuss a [...]

Currently I have the luxury to be back with my roots and do some full-time software developer, rather than work on three projects at once spending more time on managing, discussing and commuting. As there seems to be a tendency in developers careers to shift out technology at some time and become project manager or [...]

Ever considered how dull it looks: “If you have suggestions or remarks, please leave a message”. Even nowadays interaction designers tend to leave feedback forms in there wireframes, and totally mis the concept of websites like getsatisfaction.com. In general I believe that web marketing managers and editorial and support staff should be aware that people [...]

Still not sure whether this was a good thing to do or not, but then again I like to enable people and push them a little to get to the next level. Maybe because I decided for myself to get to the next level, which might also explain me being more active and more positive [...]

After having written a Yammer Extension for mediawiki (http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-yammer-tag-extension/) which I got some really good responses to, it was time to look around for new challenges. So on to the new plugins we write and are about to write; Just last week we decided it would be good to implement some reward and recognition model [...]

Do you know the feeling that some four weeks after you finish a project you get that moment of reflection. You decide what you have learned, what you seriously never need to do ever again, or just be amazed at how things came and went and in the end there is something there but you [...]

Dave Robinson discussed the new meaning words have gained through the social media revolution. Friends are no longer friends, but mere followers; Liking has nothing to do with getting enthusiastic about a topic, more or less you just consider the topic to be relevant to some of your friends, erm followers. Although his observations are [...]

So I recently received my laptop at the client where I will be having a senior front end developer role. As my first day actually doing some work didn’t come till today I only installed my portable apps browsers (firefox, iron), following with a major series of installments today. As to the below list is [...]