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2 Links in 2010

• 04.05.2010 I am seriously considering replacing this part of the site with a Twitter feed.
• 27.04.2010 I have released my automated UI testing framework on GitHub: http://github.com/mennovanslooten/UITest

1 Links in 2009

• 28.01.2009 Thanks, anonymous reader, for pointing out that I had a PHP error in my atom feed.

2 Links in 2008

• 17.04.2008 Backbase released the 4.2 versions of their Ajax software. Read about it in the press release or their summary of what's new. You can download it through their development network. The homepage strangely enough still links to the old version.
• 12.02.2008 This has to be one of the geekiest sites I've ever seen: let others rate your IDE color scheme.

37 Links in 2007

• 24.12.2007 The Dutch guild for front end programmers I wrote about earlier is now called Fronteers.
• 09.12.2007 Looks like it's official: eBuddy is the 7th fastest rising search term worldwide in 2007 on Google. Amazing. Just amazing.
• 21.11.2007 Recently we've been working very hard on improving the performance of the new eBuddy chat client. Yesterday, I wrote a post on the eBuddy blog that describes these efforts in some detail.
• 23.10.2007 My former Backbase colleague Sergey Ilinsky has written an interesting article about unifying the XMLHttpRequest object across browsers making them more standards-compliant across the line.
• 23.10.2007 XHTML.com's Vlad Alexander interviews CSS creator Bert Bos.
• 26.09.2007 The guys from Propellerheads have released Reason 4.0. The new components look very promising but I'm especially excited about the new sequencer.
• 21.09.2007 Quite an amazing piece of German handiwork: a mechanical Pong game.
• 20.09.2007 Spolsky strikes again! This time he draws interesting analogies between the demise of Lotus 1-2-3 in the 90's and the (imminent?) failure of hand-rolled Ajax applications. I don't agree with everything he says but it's a must-read.
• 20.09.2007 InfoQ published an interesting interview with James Ward about the upcoming Flex 3 and Microsoft Silverlight.
• 24.08.2007 I'd like to take this chance and wish Stephen Fry, one of my favorite presenters, comedians and writers, a happy 50th birthday.
• 21.08.2007 Here is a world premiere: eBuddy now supports MySpace IM besides the already supported MSN, AIM, Yahoo and GoogleTalk networks!
• 11.08.2007 After this week's 1.0 release from the e texteditor, there's another major milestone from the intype team whose free editor is also heavily inspired by the legendary TextMate.
• 08.08.2007 The new .Mac Web Gallery's that have my co-workers drooling here have apparently been written with the SproutCore JavaScript framework.
• 08.08.2007 The e-texteditor 1.0 has been released. It was an interesting but quirky editor when I first encountered it but I'm definitely gonna give it another go.
• 01.08.2007 I HAS A VAR & IN UR LOOP: LOLCODE
• 21.07.2007 200 Bad Comics are actually really good.
• 19.07.2007 Jose Rodreguez has created a really nice use for my canvas function plotter experiment. Together with a "script that calculates the general term of a series using interpolation by finite differences" it creates a function plot for any sequence of numbers you put in. Impressive stuff.
• 13.07.2007 eBuddy announced an alpha iPhone version today! Just point your iPhone to www.ebuddy.com and you will automatically be taken to a special login screen. Mashable has some more info.
• 10.07.2007 Passive/agressive notes, a humorous look at human communication.
• 29.06.2007 Joel Spolsky wrote about one of my favorite management books, Up The Organization by Robert Townsend. If you can get your hands on it, get it!
• 28.06.2007 Here are a few very interesting and funny observations about bicycles and their riders in Amsterdam by someone from San Fransisco.
• 15.06.2007 Me and my colleagues from eBuddy are proud to present the public beta of our new WebMessenger client! This client allows you to log in with as many accounts from AIM, Yahoo and MSN simultaneously as you want. GoogleTalk and ICQ support is forthcoming. I will write a bit more about the technical background later.
• 12.06.2007 Backbase have revamped their website. Although the new style has a more 'corporate' feel, I have to say I liked Sharif's previous efforts a little better. They've lost the old illustrations and web2.0-feel and gotten a little more serious. It also looks like they've stopped using the Backbase engine to power the website.
• 11.06.2007 I've been waiting a long time for this. Here's Apple's legendary browser Safari on Windows.
• 07.06.2007 Tweakers.net, the largest Dutch tech-community site (and one of the largest world-wide, I believe) have launched their new site.
• 04.06.2007 The Uniform Server team has finally released a new version after more than a year of silence! US is a zero-install (make sure you get the .ZIP) WAMP package that is very easy to deploy and use. Their new 3.4 version, codenamed Sluger, can be downloaded at SourceForge.
• 22.05.2007 I've been a big, big fan of Uniform Server, an extremely handy download, unzip and run no-install Apache, PHP, MySQL distribution for Windows. Even though the package is completely stable in my experience, it's always nice to hear an update is coming, especially since the author has recently been shot!
• 16.05.2007 Here's two recent articles on webdevelopment I highly recommend: Peter Paul Koch's introduction to ranges (JavaScript) and Eric Meyer's thoughts on input styling (CSS).
• 20.04.2007 Awards galore! eBuddy has now been nominated for a The Next Web Award in the category Social. The awards ceremony on June 1st will be in the stunning Tuschinsky theatre, which as it happens is just around the corner from eBuddy HQ. Don't forget to vote for us!
• 19.03.2007 It's official! eBuddy has been included in this year's Red Herring Top 100.
• 13.03.2007 CodeIgniter has a new logo & website. Looking pretty slick, I must say. This site is built on CodeIgniter, by the way.
• 10.03.2007 For anyone who has every been impressed by the musical capabilities of a Commodore 64, here's a site dedicated to remixes of SID tunes.There are more than 130 results for The Last Ninja alone! (I highly recommend the one by Instant Remedy.)
• 09.03.2007 eBuddy is one of the ten Dutch companies that have been nominated for the Red Herring 100, a list of the most innovative private companies in Europe.
• 07.03.2007 My friends, the 16 Bit Lolita's have no less than three tracks on the latest Global Underground release.
• 03.03.2007 My favorite IT-flavored site, The Daily WTF, has been renamed to Worse Than Failure. Mandatory reading for any programmer.
• 03.03.2007 A DHTML Amiga reconstruction? Respect. It's even given me a guru meditation error once.
• 03.01.2007 Backbase's 3.2 release was given a 2007 Technology of the Year Award by Infoworld: Best Ajax Toolkit. Congratulations, everybody.

17 Links in 2006

• 29.12.2006 For all the people wanting to (digitally) photograph fireworks this weekend, here are a couple of really good tips. Thanks to photofacts.nl (Dutch).
• 28.12.2006 After the whole Lidell vs. Silva debacle I hardly dare to believe this even bigger piece of MMA-news: Mirko Filipovic is to join the UFC. I look forward to seeing him shake up the heavyweight division over there but it pains me to think there might never be a rematch with Fedor.
• 21.12.2006 Simon Willison makes the case for JSON that someone should have done one-and-a-half years ago... I just didn't get it back then. Since then I've applied it successfully in various projects and it certainly does work.
• 20.12.2006 Happy 10^th birthday, CSS!
• 23.11.2006 Peter Paul Koch wrote an interesting article about this week's Dutch parliament elections. Worth a read.
• 20.11.2006 I think Dean Edwards is on to something here: subclassing JavaScript Arrays in an iframe sandbox looks pretty promising. Hooray!
• 08.11.2006 Tomorrow you're all gonna wake up in a brave new world. A world where the constitution is trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags.
• 13.10.2006 My old colleague and friend Laurens Holst has moved to Japan to finally figure out what this whole anime thing is about. As any good geek he's blogging his adventures (in Dutch).
• 26.08.2006 The VW Golf GTI came pre-tuned by Volkswagen. Too bad the upcoming new Scirocco seems to be coming pre-pimped by Volkwagen. I liked the 70's design of the old version much, much better.
• 10.08.2006 The guys behind the new Transformers movie have made a cute little teaser/trailer but I'm sure some people will be more surprised by the suggestion Mars apparently has an atmosphere with clouds than by a bunch of giant robots in the sky.
• 05.08.2006 With its incredible semi-3D Java-based app, Map24 is by far the most impressive online map tool. They've now released an Ajax API.
• 19.07.2006 Nice! My all-time favorite banknote, the Dutch fifty-guilder note, get's an honorable mention in Speak Up's line-up of Canadian banknotes.
• 13.07.2006 Real time fluid-dynamics + Pong = Plasma Pong. Guaranteed to wow you for a couple of minutes.
• 13.07.2006 Unbelievable but true: Wanderlei Silva will fight Chuck Lidell in the UFC.
• 13.07.2006 Stand-by buttons will be outlawed.
• 13.07.2006 Anne is back to his old design, which I've always liked.
• 13.07.2006 I don't know how they do it, but for some reason hybridized.org is apparently able to serve up truckloads of dance mixes by well-known DJ's for free. Also, don't forget Digitally Imported and Proton Radio for your streaming needs.