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: