Ontwerpen voor en door mensen
Zo'n 30 jaar geleden, in de jaren '80 van de vorige eeuw was vormgeven grotendeels een solitair proces. Achter je eigen tafel schetste je [...]
Friendship, trust and play are important elements of design
A TED talk from Tim Brown (IDEO) from 2008: friendship, trust, play and the way we learn as young kids are important for innovation. [...]
URL checking with Python
Use the right tool for the right tasks, dealing with HTTP was never easier than with the Python Requests library. One pattern I keep using [...]
New storage
The first computer I owned was an Acorn Atom with 4K of memory and a cassette-tape as storage device. In the mid 1980's the ST506 [...]
Neo4J on OS X 10.10 Yosemite
When starting Neo4J on the commandline on a standard installation of OS X you will get this friendly reminder: WARNING: Max 2560 open files allowed, [...]
Merge: inspecting the unexpected
While creating a proof-of-concept import for an existing website I needed to associate paths with downloads which are stored in two separate workbooks in an [...]
Serving the web
Back in the day of the early web there was little to choose, pages were server by either the CERN or the NCSA webserver. I [...]
Drawing the Graph
When researching enormous amounts of navigational data creating a hierarchical graph of the data can be very insightful. One of our long-term customers has a [...]
Fetching the future
When you remember the installer-screen below you've been in the era where most people were wondering where that Internet was actually useful for... Once installed [...]
