reemst.com http://www.reemst.com about web and more Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Google about to launch browser http://www.reemst.com/2008/09/google-about-to-launch-browser.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/09/google-about-to-launch-browser.html#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:05:45 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=50 Google announced that they will launch Google Chrome, a new browser. Among the features are a powerful JavaScript enginge, V8 and (of course) tabbed browsing, but each tab is isolated from others which keeps the browser running smooth if one of the sites loaded happens to crash. According to the blog posting it should above all, be a very smooth and fast browser.

Wonder what this will do to the market share of Firefox, my currently favorite browser...

[edit]

The browser was just put online for download.

Google Chrome

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]]> http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/illusory-dripping-paint-table.html/feed Knol is live http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/knol-is-live.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/knol-is-live.html#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:11:10 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=47 Yesterday, Google launched Knol, an expert site similar to Wikipedia. One of the differences is that with Knol, authors are not anonymous. Users can comment on articles, rate and even review them.

Wired has an in-depth article and has spoken to several people involved in the project.

]]> http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/knol-is-live.html/feed Quick update http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/quick-update.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/quick-update.html#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:21:27 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=45 So, back from a nice holiday to Egypt. What a nice country, and what a lot of great things to see and do. Absolutely recommended! (You just have to see the traffic in Cairo!)


Trapped in a ray of light

While I was gone the server seems to have had some serious hardware issues and the site was moved to a new server. Unfortunately Wordpress is a little buggy in rendering 'fancy' quotes so the License plate script was broken (thanks for telling me Michael). I've fixed it today so new images can be generated again!

]]> http://www.reemst.com/2008/07/quick-update.html/feed Visual illusion of the year http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/visual-illusion-of-the-year.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/visual-illusion-of-the-year.html#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 09:52:04 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=43 The finalists and winners of the visual illusion of the year are published. Some pretty cool illusions! (via kottke.org)

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]]> http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/logo-mashups.html/feed JavaOne coverage http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/javaone-coverage.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/javaone-coverage.html#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 09:34:02 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=39 Some colleagues of mine are currently attending the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. This year the theme is JAVA+YOU. You can read about a few sessions, and some interesting new technologies on the Blogging About Java site.

]]> http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/javaone-coverage.html/feed Understanding CSS Positioning http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/understanding-css-positioning.html http://www.reemst.com/2008/05/understanding-css-positioning.html#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 19:49:08 +0000 Martijn http://www.reemst.com/?p=38 Creating a custom template for your own site can be fun, but to get the positioning of various parts of the page exactly right can sometimes result in a trial and error process.

Without a doubt, positioning, or the layout, is the hardest part of CSS. Not only because it ever so often varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position an element, all with various (dis) advantages.

Kilian Valkhof is running a series of articles called Understanding CSS Positioning of which the first part is now available. A good read before starting the conversion of your design into XHTML and CSS.

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