So I'm not the first to write about my project? Well. Nice ;) Wizlite takes the good old highlighting marker from paper to web. People get different colors and mark important sections on any homepage. Users can create groups and wizlite away on a certain topic (either private or public). You'd have to use it [...]

So Christmas is approaching and you need to buy some presents for your friends. So good for the idea, but what to buy? I've created a little web app for that, called Wish-O-Matic. You choose a few things of which you know that your friend likes them. That's it. That app will tell you what [...]

I have recently configured a server of mine to use the Squid Cache in HTTP Acceleration mode. So what's this anyway? A typical request to a webserver looks like this: Client browser opens connection to server port 80, server sends back the data through that connection. For the time of the transfer the server "loses" [...]

So the project I've been working on lately is called blummy. blummy is a tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar. It consists of small widgets, called blummlets, which make use of Javascript to provide rich functionality (such as bookmarklets). You can create your own blummy by drag-n-dropping blummlets [...]

We've seen it serveral times in history. Company A launches a new, innovative product and company B takes it, copies it and wins the competition. Not that we have come so far in just such a short time of AJAX apps but there are quite a few examples: RSS readers: Bloglines (acquired by AskJeeves), Rojo, [...]

AJAX applications are far from replacing desktop office apps. So is Flash by the way. Several projects are trying to prove the opposite. I still think that it will not happen. The current development is only a rise of quite sophisticated JavaScript applications. We had such applications before but now it's "in" or rather acceptable [...]