web development

Lately I have been rewriting the dashboard that I use to monitor the health of my business to a GWT application running on the Google App Engine.

Earlier this year I started collecting all afvalkalenders for 2010 that people have created and shared in Google Calendar on afvalkalenders.be. Currently the site lists 43 calenders.

ipsCA, a Spanish certification authority, ended 2009 with a bang. Their root certificate expired on December 30th and they had to scramble to send all customers new SSL certificates.

I have created a small layer for the Layar augmented reality browser for mobile devices. It shows all known fietsknooppunten in Flanders.

One of the scripts in my bag of tools to check whether a site is still up and running is content-check.pl. This little script compares the hash of a web page against a previously created reference hash. If the content of the web page has modified, this script will detect it and send an email.

Yesterday Google announced Google Wave, a new tool/platform/protocol for communication and collaboration on the web.

Earlier today I had to rotate an animated GIF. I thought I was in for a tough ride but it turns out to be pretty easy to do.

Friday I went to Twiist.be (The Way Internet Is Supposed To Be), a one-day Internet conference in Leuven organized by Filip Bunkens and Simon Schoeters.

Internet Explorer 8 is available. Even though it includes a number of important enhancements (like the default use of a standards compliant rendering mode) this new release of IE is not going to end the suffering of web developers around the world.

Google has just started testing a new service to inform webmasters that their CMS is vulnerable to security exploits.