7 Things

• I have no degree, I only finished high-school (Social Sciences) and attended one year of College before dropping out and started working
• I’m completely self taught, autodidact if you wish
• I love to cook and according to my girlfriend am quite good at it. I learned most of it during high-school where we had cooking classes 4 hours per week. Then it sucked, now I love it!
• I’m a metal fan. In Flames, Opeth, Amorphis and Moonspell are among my favourite bands. Older metal bands like Manowar, AC/DC, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden and Gamma Ray are on my playlist too. As long as it has a good melody in it I like it.
• I’ve spent my high-school time at a boarding school. I hated it when my parents sent me off to a boarding school but looking back at that time I must admit that it probably was the best decision my parents ever made for me. It’s there that I met my girlfriend in 6th grade.
• I live in a city called Peer which translates into english as pear which is quite amusing seeing my affinity with PHP (you php developers know what I’m talking about)
• During my career I’ve worked as waiter in a restaurant, assembly-worker at a truck parts factory, maintenance technician at the Ford factory in Genk, clerk in a bookstore and even garbage collector. So I’ve had my share of stupid jobs before I finally got the opportunity to start as web-developer.

Seven People

This is going to be the hardest part, finding 7 people to tag … most people I know either don’t blog or already are tagged so i’ll do my best coming up with 7 …

• Jente Kasprowski for he is the single most talented webdesigner I’ve met, has a great musical taste, is the best boss you could ever wish for and really has to start his own personal blog! http://www.inventis.be (Yes Jan, you are nice too but Thijs already tagged you :p )
• Niki dubois, for he is the guy that got me blogging again, my newest colleague at Inventis and all-round nice guy: http://blog.ikin.be/
• Bart Vandebeek for he is a nice colleague, great designer and fun guy. And he has to keep his damn blog up to date: http://www.studioimago.be/blog/
• Mark Creeten, for he is a fellow with a big passion for webdesign, and autodidact like me and for the chats we had when I was still working at Boek & Soft: http://www.gigadesign.be/

Well there we have it … the rest of the people I would like to tag are already tagged (thijs, andries, felix, michelangelo, skoop, …) or don’t blog (iworx, david, dirk, dieter, … do something about it guys, there’s more than twitter alone )

Here are the rules for my fellow bloggers who I tagged:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

For more info and photos, felicitations and more comments please visit http://torn.skyrocket.be

For example if we add the following to-do item to basecamp we actually end up with a standard html button as the screenshot below shows.

<button> hello world

What’s the fuzz all about you’d say … well then I tried adding some javascript to the button and that too just saved to the to-do item and worked like one would expect. I added the following code as a to-do item and saved it, the result can be seen in the screenshot.

<button onclick="alert(document.cookie)"> hello world

I honestly don’t know if this is a big security issue since i’m not a javascript security expert but if you ask me this is open for abuse. I would at least have expected some tags would get encoded into their HTML entities or javascript would get stripped all along. Anyone has an idea on this?

The YUI library we already had the YAHOO.util.Event.onAvailable() event but the people who prefer to use Prototype were left a little bit in the dark … untill now.

Dan at Vivabit created the DOM Ready extension for the Prototype framework which allows you to start executing code when the DOM is ready and all elements are available, leaving the images and other element loading in the background. Very nice work and something i’ve been waiting for a long time!

Edit: Apparently vivabit doesn’t offer the file for download anymore, you can find it here if you are still interested: http://www.skyrocket.be/download/prototype.domReady.js

A new blog started by me mainly to experiment some with various new techniques and web API’s. The site will be regulary updated though so if you are in game consoles and want to step right up with the next revolution in console gaming this is a site you want to bookmark. Oh yea … it’s dutch too so that’ll probably rule out you english speakers

What’s in a name you say … well in this one there’s alot. Netvibes just got so so much better. They added tabbed pages, speeded up RSS feeds, added icons (Famfamfam icons rule) and hover captions for feed posts, you can now aggregate feeds requiring authentication which means you can add all kinds of info to your netvibes startpage. There is simply too much to tell about … just go check for yourself!

Netvibes just got a worthy alternative to Bloglines as my main feedreader with their Anise version.

I’m still running them alongside eachother for the coming week but what i’ve seen at my Performancing metrics dashboard ’till now is only positive. It doesn’t suffer from information overload like google Analytics does, it’s simply to navigate and overview. It just gives me the stats I need, when I need it. I’m holding my horses for now but i’m fairly sure i’ll stop tracking with Google Analytics and switch to Performancing Metrics within a few days.