The Flemish government is discussing (again and already for a long time) a new organisation of the educational system. One of the ideas is to lower (or eliminate) the number of hours dedicated to computer lessons. Yes indeed, they think students already use enough computers at home so they don’t need any additional lessons. The usage of computers (and electronics in general) should just be integrated into the other lessons.

At Multi-Mania I’ve seen the presentations of two inspiring “technology artists”.

The first was Joshua Davis, joshuadavis.com,a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. Currently residing at Code and Theory, codeandtheory.com as creative director of physical installations.

Why do we use social media? Or more specific, why do I want to use it? I have this blog and sometimes I ask myself what I can tell here to the world, that the world doesn’t know yet?

In the last two months I visited Phare Conference and Multi-Mania. Not so much for my “technical education”, but to be on top of the trends and evolutions in web and social. Both events overloaded my brain with a lot of info, ideas and I-want-to-spread-this-knowledge-feelings.

Many long years ago, so long ago it was even an other century, I started experimenting with website coding with Microsoft Frontpage. Only a few weeks later I already realized this was a really bad tool and switched to Adobe Dreamweaver, still one of my favourite HTML editors.

When loading data from a webservice to be shown in a datagrid it seemed that all values in the grid are treated as string-values. So when sorting numeric columns the values were not in the correct order.

I experienced a problem with a datagrid where I tried to use a scrollToIndex.

This was the necessary workflow: