From the monthly archives: March 2009
A lot of people seem to have problems with updating or inserting data in tables in an intelligent way. We shouldn’t point a finger to those who don’t use the correct syntax for the problem it solves, because there are a lot of different ways to do this, but I wanted to create a little [...]
All Twitter users will recognize some things from this little, very hilarious movie. Take a look at it…. I guess the creators of the video really have a point here…
Microsoft SuperViewer
Microsoft recently released a small piece of software on which a web developer can test his application in different browsers. Try it; it might come in rather handy as this will maybe become one of the futures most used debug tools… We don’t know if this will become a success because the initial [...]
Writing css code isn’t that hard, it’s easy, clean but can be a pain in the ass to keep it readable when you have hundreds or maybe thousands of lines of code.
When sticking to specific rules it can all be made a bit more readable:
always use a reset of some sort alphabetize write [...]
Ever heard of ‘less is more’? This is, more than ever, a standard that every developer should follow while designing his new website. Why the f* would I start talking about that, you can ask yourself. Well, the answer is quite simple, as I was going to the toilet earlier this day and was in [...]
I was listening to the radio in my car this morning and overheard an interview with the Flemish godfather of the internet, Mister Robert Cailiau.
In December 1974 he started working at CERN as a Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, working on the control system of the accelerator. In [...]
Sometimes it’s interesting to protect your web content from the world, and there are different ways (or a combination) to do this:
Create a robot.txt file
This file is uploaded into the root folder of a website and makes sure that specific folders shouldn’t be crawled and indexed by search engines. Most of the time [...]
I struggled with a bit of code last week, but found a nice solution.
The goal was to convert 3 parameters into a date:
1. The day of the week (0 -> 6, 0 = Monday, 1 = Tuesday, 2 = Wednesday, etc.)
2. The week number (0 – 53,
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