Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Fleck Pizza Session

Fleck Pizza Session. Photo by Boris. The deadline for Fleck is quickly approaching and we are working hard to make it. This time ;-) Tonight we planned a Pizza Session at the office and invited some friends too. Patrick bought 26 36 beers which amounts to 6 beers a person. We just ordered 6 pizzas which should give us enough energy to go on for a...

HTML help?

Are you good with HTML and CSS, interface design, available for the next 3 months, willing to work in an office and want to make some money? Mail...

MacBook Pro: tips for smuggling?

Apple released the new MacBook Pro today. My Powerbook is in fairly good shape but I bought it in 2003 so I wouldn't mind replacing it. I broke off two keys from the keyboard and lost a few screws. I also tried to close it once while something was stuck between the hinges and ever since it won't close properly. And at 1.25 Ghz with 1 GB memory and a 80 GB hd it isn't a speed deamon anymore. As you can tell I'm giving myself an excellent excuse to buy the newest MacBook pro! I just...

Fleck Explorer Version Needed

It would be very nice if we could launch Fleck with an Extension for Explorer too. Who can help me with that?  All it has to do (for now) is get the current URL and post it to another URL. Shouldn't be hard if you have build something for Explorer...

Fleck User Interface Icon Design

These are the icons for Fleck I'm working on right...

Smart Kid

Smart Kid. Photo by Boris This morning I met a little boy. He was working on a puzzle. It was one of the harder to solve puzzles at the daycare center. He had looked at all the pieces and decided to solve the puzzle on his own terms. He was just finishing it when I entered the room and as you can see he solved it by turning all the pieces over. I complimented him on this elegant solution and he replied "Yeah, a nice white...

Quote from “Breakthrough”

Breakthrough (stories and strategies of radical innovation) is the book I'm reading now. Here is one quote that inspired me and made me think again. "Kroemers lemma: "the principal applications of any sufficiently new and innovative technology always have been and will continue to be applications created by that new technology" This means, as the authors Mark and Barbara Stefik write, that new technologies solve new problems....

Fleck Extension and Firefox 2.0!

See that? The new buttons are of different size. Not a big bug and surely something I can fix but it looks like I will now have to build and offer two extensions. One for everything below 2.0 with big buttons and another one for everything above 2.0 with smaller buttons. It would have been nice if Firefox would have detected the smaller of bigger image and scaled it to the right size. I wonder if from now on every Extension designer will offer two different versions of his...