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Adobe releases Dreamweaver CS4 Beta

posted on 27 May 2008 (11:36 AM)

Adobe has released beta versions of some of its software's CS4 editions, namely Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth.

Being a web developer myself, I'll write a bit about the new Dreamweaver.

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Help the UN World Food Program to end world hunger

posted on 13 March 2008 (09:37 PM)

Guess the meaning of English words by playing this educative game

The UN World Food Program has created a game to gather food for third-world countries.
In the game, you have to guess the correct synonym for an English word. For non-native speakers it can actually be quite challenging and educational.

Below every question is a different ad, and that way various advertisers sponsor this initiative. I think it's a great idea and gladly link to it. Apart from being a great new, inventive way of helping others, the game is actually a nice use of modern web technologies like CSS and DOM scripting.

Via Grrr

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Dutch Internet Works is looking for freelance web designers

posted on 22 February 2008 (12:00 PM)

Business is going well, and we at Dutch Internet Works wish to expand our network.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 introduces version targeting

posted on 25 January 2008 (12:59 AM)

Wow. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, seems to be talking about Microsoft's version targeting system, that's to be introduced in IE8.

MS sure knows how to stir things up. Here's my take on it.

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Bye bye freelancing

posted on 05 January 2008 (02:04 AM)

I've been meaning to write this post for a couple of weeks now, but I've deliberately kept my spare time computer-free (well, mostly. You know how that goes).

I'm happy to announce, though, that as of the first of December 2007, I've been working for Dutch Internet Works.

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Peter-Paul Koch presents the Dutch Guild Of Front-Enders

posted on 02 July 2007 (11:29 PM)

Peter-Paul Koch is tired of the current state of professionalism in HTML development in Dutch web design agencies, and has formed the Dutch Guild Of Front-Enders.

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Original new CAPTCHA

posted on 12 March 2007 (10:57 PM)

Tired of CAPTCHA's? A Dutch paper reported an interesting new development in Internet authorisation today, involving homeless cats and dogs.

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Why use semantic class names?

posted on 06 February 2007 (04:48 PM)

In the new Dutch accessibility law I recently linked to, one of the guidelines is Use semantic and descriptive classnames and ids.

Why? A lot of web standards / accessibility advocates talk about this subject and everyone mutually agrees that this indeed should be pursued. I don’t get it… why should I care?

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Fighting spam using MySQL and PHP

posted on 27 December 2006 (07:14 PM)

Spam is a terrible, terrible thing. And I'm not even talking about spam emails. Luckily, I don't receive a lot of Viagra, free offers or casino coupons in my mailbox, so when that happens, I just send them straight to the trash bin.

I'm talking about comment spam. This form of spamming is even worse, 'cause it's out in the open, where everyone can read it, polluting innocent websites that have got nothing to do whatsoever with that malicious content.

In this article I will provide a way to arm yourself against this criminal behaviour.

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Whatstyle is renewed!

posted on 02 December 2006 (05:48 PM)

Phew, the new version is finally up and running. It took me a while, but here we are.

To you friendly visitors not much has changed, but the back-end has undergone some pretty big alterations. Read on to learn more...

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Web 2.0 sucks

posted on 09 September 2006 (03:29 PM)

Thank you, marketeers! Thank you for this wonderful term. Web 2.0 really is spot-on. Allright, let's drop the sarcasm; buzz-words suck. I believe they endanger the web and confuse starting web developers.

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School and the web

posted on 22 August 2006 (02:09 PM)

What has always bugged me is the way I've been educated in building web pages. I think it's great the Web Standard Project has formed a task force for improving that particular case.

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