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2010

Coffee as catching up

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I was already in the habit of starting my mornings drinking the best coffee in Amsterdam at Stumptown and would regularly chat with the mayor. After planning some morning meetings there, getting an early start, drinking great coffee and having a good conversation with people you’d normally not talk to, proved to be a good idea.

Weeknotes 172

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Monday # Continuation of Ebi and first deployment to the server. One of my biggest beefs with Django is that any fresh deploy to a server will cost you at least one hour, despite it being the same old stuff you have been doing for ever (as opposed to App Engine).

UX Triangle

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Some conversations with Jaap Stronks for the terminology and the rifts between UX designers I am witnessing more and more on events (dConstruct, The Web and Beyond) sparked this model below.

Experience Zeeburgereiland

This week I biked past Zeeburgereiland on my bike route from the Eastern Docks to IJburg and all I saw was completely desolation and this billboard. I had wanted to bike along side the IJ but this part of the city is so unfinished larg pieces of it are inaccessible.

Ranking our schools for better effect

Last week we had this piece of news in the Netherlands: “Scholenranglijst van Trouw heeft effect” (School ranking by Dutch newspaper Trouw sorts effect): Trouw has a database on their website with the statistics from our board of education which they editorialize and republish on their Schoolprestaties site. The news piece reports on research that shows this ranking has a real effect both in prospective school choice and in school improvement.

New disciplines for a real-time data world

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Some posts that had been sitting in my browser tabs for a while combined together in a brand new job guide for 2010. You can also read this as a follow-up post to my previous post on Why developers are important, this is which developers are important. This post has been lying in my drafts folder for a while, but it has actually only become more relevant.

Paria in the Hague

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Lots of fun to ride my second time at the Hague spring alleycat: Paria. Great guys, lots of speed and fun. Looking forward to more riding and maybe getting into polo.

Austin

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Quite pleased with this picture Toby took of me at a splendid lunch at Frank:

Joi Ito - De wereld redden door iedereen in staat te stellen om te innoveren

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Joi Ito 2010 SXSW Talk on Prezi Joi Ito is niet zozeer een man, maar een beweging. Hij leidt, stuurt en overal waar hij komt heeft hij veel gelijkgestemden. In dit tijdslot wat in het programma alleen maar Joi Ito Presentation heet omdat hij nog geen naam (en ook geen presentatie of verhaal) had vult hij in zijn eentje een uur met een samenhangend verhaal en vele anekdotes uit zijn leven als wereldreiziger en cultuurproever.