Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Drawing: Premature Optimization?

Premature Optimization is a term I picked up yesterday (From the Wakoopa guys) during lunch. I wanted to blog about it but the concept is well known among developers and often blogged about. So here is a drawing I made...

Drawing: Using Your Imagination

I used to make these little drawing all the time when I was in art school. Then I stopped. Today, as I was looking for an excuse for NOT doing what I REALLY need to be doing I noticed this little notebook on my desk and decided to draw a little. It is going to take a while for me to get used to drawing again. Maybe I can find some old work and get some inspiration from...

The ONLY Black iPhone In The World

A few weeks ago I dropped my iPhone on the kitchen floor and cracked the glass. I was extremely disappointed and shared my feelings on Twitter. But then Oscar Kneppers came up with a beautiful plan. I'm not going into all the details here because I want to leave that to Bright Magazine but it involved Mark Hoekstra and you can see the result here: The Black iPhone: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/822/paint-it-black-the-iphone I am so proud that MY old iPhone is now THE coolest...

Get ready for Bowlr…

Patrick posted another Bowlr movie today. Even funnier than the last one. YouTube - Get ready for...

40 More BeFunky Invites!

My blog still gets a lot of visitors who are looking for BeFunky invites. My blog is the first result in Google if you search for Befunky Invites and it is also listed on Mahalo.com at the general BeFunky page there. Today Tekin Tatar emailed me 40 (!) new invitation codes to hand out! If you want one simply send me an email and I will email you one back as soon as I get a chance. Here are 10 invites just to get in the...

Architecture 2.0

My father is a well known architect from Rotterdam. After visiting the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam last year he decided to organize a conference about the future of architecture. It grew into a pretty impressive event over the previous months! The Architecture 2.0 conference will be held on November 9 in 'De Doelen' in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and is organized together with NAi (the dutch architecture museum) in Rotterdam. The speakers are Wiel Arets, Ben van Berkel, Francine...

Extreme Bowling?

Patrick filmed us during our first Bowling session. We are training for Bowlr which will take place on January 31, 2008 in Amsterdam. He just posted this movie on Youtube that shows me performing an extreme bowling trick. You might conclude that I'm good at bowling after seeing this but I can assure you that I have no talent for it. CHeck Patrick's post too and hope to see you at Bowlr...

Bowlr Training

On January 31, 2008 we are hosting the Dutch Bowlr event here in Amsterdam. We don't have much experience with bowling so we decided to practice a little bit today. Bowling is actually pretty much fun and we are even more excited than before about the Bowlr event! More info here: http://bowlr.nl More photos...