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These days I am getting all these e-mails to join hackathons about certain topics. I wonder what the organisations that set up hackathons are actually hoping to achieve. They are usually set up by government funded organisations (like MIC and VRT) and by big government funded companies (Proximus, Bpost) I once participated in Apps for […]
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Remember that post about the new Belgian Railways signage? Apparently they added a tutorial. Photo via Rik.
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Some time ago, I used to make a lot of these “brochure” type websites. What frustrated me back then was that more often than not I was forced into an uncomfortable position. I had to make a good website, but the client’s branding would be subpar. Their logo wouldn’t be any good, they would have […]
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I mention CRUD a lot, and then people have this look on their face like they don’t know what I’m talking about. So I think I’ll explain CRUD, this way I can always link back this article. In software there is this term called CRUD, which stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete (sometimes called Destroy). […]
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I was reading another article in the great native vs. web discussion. And then I thought: native apps are all fine and dandy, but how many companies can actually afford to maintain a mobile application? In Belgium some banks and some newspapers have apps, there are some hobbyist games, and I know a few indie […]
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I love Modernizr to check if a browser support a certain CSS feature, but I found myself in the situation where I only had to check for flexbox support. In this case, it seems a bit ridiculous to load Modernizr. You can use the following code instead: Via Ethan Marcotte’s article “Putting My Patterns through […]
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In 2015 there were two talks that kept me thinking for a few days. They are “The website obesity crisis” by Maciej Ceglowski and “Delivering Responsibly” by Scott Jehl. Both authors went to great lengths to make their talk available as a responsive web page. This is important because it underlines the points of their […]
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On Twitter I’ve seen people complain about the new information systems from the Belgium railways, so I decided to take a closer look. This is what the new signage looks like: I think there are 2 main issues with the design: the “hours” are not so scannable because they are not aligned there is not […]
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Time for a new blog! This time I will try to actually blog a bit like… uh… blogging used to be? For those who don’t know, I have a long history of blogs all the way back to 2006. In the beginning I blogged to learn, and when I went freelance a couple of years […]
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you can prefill credit card information when filling out forms on the web? Well, in iOS, you can. Make sure Safari > Settings > Autofill > Credit card is turned on. This setting will allow you to add a credit card by taking a photo of it or manually adding […]