Category Archives: web development

Google Gears

Posted on May 31, 2007 by peter

With all the commotion around Appollo I forgot about another key player in the field: Google. Today they opened up the beta of Google Gears, a solution to run webapplications without the need of an internet connection. They achieve this … Continue reading →

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Flair

Posted on April 27, 2007 by peter

In the Netherlands ‘Flair’ is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun’s dictionary it will be: A self-supporting web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript Couldn’t find much about it, but they seem … Continue reading →

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Apollo

Posted on March 19, 2007 by peter

I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so … Continue reading →

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Rails update…

Posted on August 13, 2006 by peter

The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the ‘mandatory’ 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost. Couldn’t get it to work at all, and no sensible … Continue reading →

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Browser shots

Posted on July 7, 2006 by peter

Testing your website for browser compatibility is a tedious job. Most projects don’t have budget to test on to many browsers. A good tool to at least have an idea of how a pages looks in the different browsers is … Continue reading →

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