Als programmeur probeer ik naast mijn dagelijkse portie koffie, stilzitten, RSI-productie en schermstaren te zorgen voor de nodige beweging om fit te blijven. Sinds kleins af aan ben ik opgevoed met de Tour de France, Giro d’Italia en andere grote ronden en klassiekers op de achtergrond. Met zo’n achtergrond is het dan ook niet gek dat ik al sinds vele jaren mijn beweging zoek op stadsfiets, racefiets en mountainbike. Nadat ik binnen mijn vriendenkring in korte tijd meerdere vrienden een dierbaar persoon heb zien verliezen, heb ik besloten dat ik deze hobby wil combineren met het steunen van de strijd tegen kanker. Gesponserd door ScanYours rijd ik daarom deze zomer mee met duizenden anderen tijdens Alpe d’HuZes. Read more »
Category Archives: Development
I often work with the Landscape Model as proposed by Verhagen (1999). Even though this is a rather old article -that has been written in 1999- the model still guides my thinking when developing effective websites and online systems. The model can guide my thoughts in new perspectives and channels my thinking in the right direction. In this blog -without getting to scientific- I look at the Hotel Reservation System in their websites from the perspective of the CDSS and look at what we can learn from that.
My conclusion? Far to many hotels forget that their booking process on their hotel website is an important element in the customer buying decision process.
Although I usually try to prevent working with Joomla!, recently I had to build a customized website in this CMS. For this website, I created three interacting components with backend management panels from scratch. As I never had worked with Joomla! 1.7.x or above, I followed the tutorial ‘Developing a Model-View-Controler (MVC) Component for Joomla!2.5‘ which I located through Google. Although this tutorial is rather long (18 parts, of which about 15 are completed), the tutorial only covers the creation of a basic component and does not elaborate on the functionality of the used classes or the underlying logic. With the new knowledge gained, I was able to produce two of the components without major problems. However, during the creation of a third component I ran into a problem caused by a ‘feature’ of the Joomla! CMS: automatic pluralization. Read more »
Veel bedrijven laten op het gebied van hun online communicatie kansen liggen. (Potentiële) klanten verlaten de website snel, gaan niet over tot aankoop of het opnemen van contact met het bedrijf, of verlaten het aankoopproces voortijdig. Om een antwoord te vinden op de vraag hoe bezoekers beter bediend kunnen worden is de Webscan ontwikkeld. In de eerste maand van het nieuwe jaar legde ScanYours met behulp van de Webscan de website van Redkiwi langs de meetlat. De inhoud van deze blog is eerder gepubliceerd in ICT/magazine.
After the news by Nik Cubrilovic that Facebook keeps tracking cookies after users log out, I decided to make a small extension to remove these cookies automatically. The extension provided in this article is triggered when users visit a website in Google Chrome or Chromium. Once triggered, it will remove all cookies set by Facebook if it detects that you have logged out from it. By removing these cookies, it is no longer easily possible to track you while you browse on other pages on the web. Although the extension is not optimized yet (the code could probably be shorter and execution somewhat faster), the extension has been tested on several machines and it seems to work great. Read more »
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