Category: Noteworthy

  • Dashboard widgets coming to mobile phones (or: Apple willingly giving up their head start to Nokia)

    Back in June , prior to the iPhone launch i’ve written about how “Apple should open up the iPhone and likely is prepared to do so“. I the meantime a lot happened . The iPhone was and is a resounding success, third party developers and hackers worked furiously to reverse engineer the software in order […]

  • Four more

    Yesterday i made another trip to my favourite bookseller. Four more books on the reading shelve: RESTful Web Services (Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby) Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS (John Krygier, Denis Wood) CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll) Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How […]

  • EU commission stealing content – at least some Belgian newspapers should say so

    Did i get your attention? Now lets have a look at the details. Act I: Copiepresse vs. the Search Engines Last september a considerable amount of buzz was generated by the ruling of a belgian court that: Pursuant to the law dd. 15m June 1935 on the use of languages in judicial matters; Rejecting all […]