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Girl techies!
As I blogged before (Education or how it all started and Terug naar school?! ) I find it important to integrate the wonderful world of technology into school lessons for kids of …
Presenting for an audience, do's and don'ts.
In school and the professional world we all have to give presentations. Some of us love it, some hate it, but we all use Powerpoint for it. Personally I have a love-hate …
Big data
Big data <> Open data “Big data” is one of those other trending topics. You could link it to “open data” I blogged about some time ago . The idea …
The web of things
What is it? The internet is no longer a network of computers only. Smartphones, tables and more and more devices are connected to that same internet: security cameras, lights, …
Terug naar school?!
Eerder had ik het op deze blog over mijn schooltijd en hoe één leraar er voor verantwoordelijk was dat ik gebeten werd door het computervirus . Die post kwam er naar aanleiding van …
The rise of Open Data
From all the current buzz words “big data” is probably the “buzziest”. According to Wikipedia this is the description: Open data is the idea that certain …
Bitcoin - The virtual money
All money is for the main part virtual. Just numbers on bank accounts. Imagine what would happen if Bill Gates went to the bank and asked for all his money in 100$ notes?! A lot of …
Education or how it all started
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 …
Learn from artists
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, …
Social media - Why?!
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 …
Back to blogging...
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 …
Microsoft code mess
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 …
Sorting numeric values in a Flex DataGrid
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 …
ScrollToIndex doesn't work when dataprovider has just been updated
I experienced a problem with a datagrid where I tried to use a scrollToIndex. This was the necessary workflow: