http://www.mikevanrossum.nl/ I blog about webdevelopment http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/05/visualizing-our-running-progress/ While I was running a couple of weeks back I was thinking about Nike’s new slogan for it’s Nike+ campaign. “Make it count!” it says, but for what? So I hacked up a little website that fetches all tweets send by the Nike+ app and bundles all our runs together per hour. Make (…) Thu, 10 May 2012 04:57:27 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/05/visualizing-our-running-progress/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/storing-tweets-using-nodejs/ Since I have my own VPS I’m constantly trying out new stuff. After messing around with nodejs I have my own little script (just over 100 lines) that connects to Twitter using their streaming API, get’s all tweets that contain certain words, do a minimal amount of parsing and (…) Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:27:21 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/storing-tweets-using-nodejs/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/the-future-of-music-concerts/ Tupac made his appearance on the music festival Coachella. The strange part is that he has been dead for over 15 years. The thing that stands out to me is that the whole idea of a music concert is based around the fact that you get to live the concert. Seeing the artists, (…) Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:47:39 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/the-future-of-music-concerts/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/getting-started-with-processingjs/ Lately I’ve been reading a book about data visualization. The book goes into the thought process of visualizing data for humans and also talks a lot about visual coding. All code in the book is Processing code, an extremely easy and fast way to visualize. Last night I started (…) Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:56:13 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/getting-started-with-processingjs/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/its-not-about-about-what-it-does/ Last week I discovered a new app called Pair, it’s an extremely simple message app that doesn’t even cover the basic features of WhatsApp. It goes even further by limiting you to chat with a single person. Behind those worthless ‘specs’ I see a truly innovative app. This app (…) Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:08:46 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/04/its-not-about-about-what-it-does/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/open-graph-as-the-semantic-web/ The internet plays a key part in how we envision the future. From a broad perspective we can see that a lot of services have shifted to the internet, as technology permits this number will grow even larger. Projects like the internet of things think about how large amounts of (…) Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:53:34 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/open-graph-as-the-semantic-web/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/why-the-end-of-seo-gets-us-closer-to-the-answer/ SEO has played a huge part in the web the last couple of years, but it won’t last forever. Google announced this week that it will penalize overly optimized websites. This doesn’t really come as a shock to me when I start thinking about Google in general and the problem it is (…) Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:11:07 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/why-the-end-of-seo-gets-us-closer-to-the-answer/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/how-to-prevent-spam-comments-on-your-own-php-blog/ I’ve been building this website from the ground up, it’s great that I have all the freedom to build it however I want it. However this does mean I’m rewriting a lot of problems that has been solved before. This week for example I turned on my own commenting module which allows (…) Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:15:04 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/how-to-prevent-spam-comments-on-your-own-php-blog/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/an-easy-way-to-manipulate-data-off-dom-using-jquery/ When you’re working with javascript you need to take the execution speed into account since its all being processed on the client. There are lots of best practices when it comes to working with websites. You should for example always minify and concatenate your scripts, and make (…) Tue, 6 Mar 2012 01:52:13 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/an-easy-way-to-manipulate-data-off-dom-using-jquery/ http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/surviving-in-the-present/ I just read this very interesting article called ‘We, the Web Kids’ about my generation. The article identifies some interesting problems with the current generation of people who have never lived without the web. It explains some very big differences between us and other generations, (…) Sun, 4 Mar 2012 10:29:58 +0100 http://mikevanrossum.nl/blog/2012/03/surviving-in-the-present/