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I’m getting increasingly frustrated with COREBlog the Zope based blogging software that runs this show.

If you are web developer you should already have installed Firebug because it makes life so much easier for the DOM/CSS/JavaScript programmer. Get it now (I mean it!) from addons.mozilla.org.

Nice article about continuation based webservers and their implementation in Java [via].

Hurray for Google making up for all the shoddy work Microsoft has done on their browser. IE7 is coming out soon with a lot of fixes, but still not quite up to par with the rest of the civilized browser world.

On work I dock my iBook on a Dell setup with LCD display and keyboard and mouse combo. This setup works pretty well but the reverse position of the Command and Option keys on the Dell keyboard was driving me mad.

It seems like Apple is in a confused place. Maybe an intrinsic part of the creative process, but being more thoughtful about the real world should not hurt them too much.

A gem of a presentation by Tim Sweeney from Epic about the next generation of programming languages (via).

I made a presentation to evangelize my project to my colleagues at TOPdesk and I just put it online.

Stories of Microsoft changing are doing the rounds, but one thing they don’t seem to be able to change is their inability to release Vista (press release).

I’m attending the Magnus ‘Power to the People’ seminar this Thursday in Amsterdam. The theme of this seminar fits in perfectly with my Masters project and I thought it would be good to get out and meet some new people, exchange some ideas.

I have a big list of light reading, idea-heavy non-fiction which sort of fits in with my Masters project and with today’s payday I thought I would splash out on a bit.

Pretty interesting article about implementing Mutex functionality in Javascript using very basic primitives (because that is all you have got).

Katie recently announced (Upcoming, Macwereld) on April 21st. CocoaDevHouse is an Amsterdam incarnation of similar popular unconferences across the world.

Good break down by David Heinemeier Hansson of the standard Enterprise bullshit and how overpriced consultants use it to cover their assess.

Ignite the European Web 2.0 conversation? I’m all for.

Garr diggs up pretty good stuff in a very cool essay spectacularly titled: “Let there be stoning!” The following excerpt is a gem:

The Laszlo Application Platform was already quite impressive with its XML descriptors rendering into full fledged Flash applications. Now on Ajaxian you can see that they can also render into Ajax so no more Flash.

Alex Russell recently gave three presentations on JavaScript, one at FOSDEM and two at ETECH. Some of it is basic stuff, some of it is more advanced and some of it is controversial.

I’ve kind of started my Masters project at TOPdesk implementing social sofware for them and the meme is spreading around the office.

Thank god Google has remembered how to make useful stuff. The Safe Browsing extension (which is going to be integrated into Firefox proper) is something that users —especially naive ones— can really benefit from via.

Hilarious Post-Traumatic Apple Event Disorder cartoon at Joy of Tech [via].

Every week I get a mailing from Filmhuis Lumen —my favorite art house theatre— with their movie schedule in it. I was entering them into my iCal as events when I got bored with the repetitivity and the obsolesence of the task.

At first I thought it was a cheesy rip off but this video actually very nicely demonstrates the difference both in philosophy and execution between Microsoft and Apple.

Why does every operating system known to man have a decent facility to set up dual heads with mirroring and extending options and boxes representing the head and its position with respect to the other head.

Alex Russell has posted his presentation on FOSDEM about advanced Javascript usage. Interesting scan and nice mix of advanced js trickery and bits and pieces of dojo.

Sun is giving away servers for trial [via] and maybe even for keeps.

I managed to make it to the Happy Clog meeting (pictures) one hour late. It was fun having a couple of drinks in de Bruine Boon and talking about standard standards stuff.

Cool stuff about pluggable type systems at Lambda. I’m not academic enough to understand all the nuances of the arguments posed, but I do enjoy any type of argument against static typing.

I’m happy that our new technologies are making this kind of thing (it’s called copresence) possible.

I was writing my literature report in Wikitext and that was working fine up until a point. My teacher had already complained that the resulting print version was not as readable as could be. I do agree with him and I would not want him to be distracted with such trivialities so I went looking for a solution.

I don’t think there’s a decent dutch Linux podcast/magazine yet, is there?

The feature list for KDE 4 is pretty impressive and is a nice pre-emption of Vista. They are both adding a slew of necessary features and innovating around a number of areas.

Ok, that was slightly uncomfortable. I had installed the 10.4.5 OS X upgrade —quite petite at 6,5 MB— yesterday night and I had just rebooted when I was confronted with a password screen.

Cory is doing monster posts on Boing Boing. This one about Google Book Search and the case for fruit baskets.

Great presentation (PDF) by Tom Coates of Yahoo! A nice big collection of Web 2.0 concepts and ideas. I especially love the style of presenting.

In the bizarre world of iframe hacks, Alex Russell brings on another one buried inside of GMail+Gtalk code.

These notes from the Carson Web Apps Summit —which I could not attend— are well worth reading.

There are some hot new videos up on Miguel’s blog showing very sizzling Gnome desktop hardware acceleration. Watch the video’s, especially the cube variant.

You’ve got to love John Stuart Mill:

Replacing the previous monstrosity with a new one. I’ve got a new portal page. Utterly unusable and not tested in IE but soit.

Two of my favorite frameworks Django and Dojo are making love [via].

Lori Kendall — Hanging out in the Virtual Pub

The literature study part of my graduation has taken long enough both schedule wise and with regards to the effort invested. I have a next milestone deadline this week on the report and I am not planning to spend much more time on it after that.

Last week I finished the book[^1] “In the Bubble” by John Thackara (my summary).

Old-school tech companies are very stubborn and not really agile enough for the new world order. Even Apple, poster boy for everything that is cool, does not really get it.

It seems Cringely is slipping. Though I would not want to task myself with so hard a task as predicting where this industry is headed.

The browser wars have returned in earnest. Firefox market share has been growing steadily and it is making inroads in Internet Explorers market with a superior product, aggressive marketing and a loyal fanbase.

I recently discovered Guy Kawasaki’s blog and its content is as great as its title: “Let the Good Times Roll”.

This week I read the book “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki.

University Library sites may have dog ugly interface which score horribly on usability but they have one killer feature: