Earlier tonight I found a newsletter from Memisa Belgium, an NGO that promotes quality basic health care, in my SPAM folder. That’s not good! What is Memisa? Memisa Belgium is an NGO that promotes quality basic health care. The main purpose is to provide essential, quality and appropriate care, particularly for the most…

Two days ago I gave a presentation at the first ever WordCamp in Belgium about front-end development methodologies & tools. While preparing my slides I discovered that www.belgium.be simply doesn’t work without JavaScript. There shouldn’t be any discussion about whether you should offer a good service to non-JavaScript people. …

Testing Joomla installations and extensions can be a tedious task. You need to setup different versions of Joomla, install extensions, symlink files, run tests, etc. Doing all this manually is very laborious and time consuming. At Joomlatools we are testing our extensions daily and had to come up with a…

Today is the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a community-driven effort whose goal is to dedicate one day to raising the profile of and introducing the topic of digital accessibility and people with different disabilities to the broadest audience possible. The target audience of Global Accessibility Awareness Day is the design…

A few weeks ago federal minister of the digital agenda, Alexander De Croo and his Digital Minds advisory board announced the action plan “Digital Belgium”. We, Timble, join hands with our Open Police project to help shape our digital future, together. Digital Belgium outlines the digital long-term vision for Belgium…

Instead of experience — https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukeboote/6941979562/ Collection of quotes from Dee Ward Hock, the founder and former CEO of the Visa credit card association. An organisation, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish…

Using CSS Transforms — Three Horizontal Lines The majority of responsive websites that use an icon to represent a hidden menu opt for the three horizontal stripes — these include some high-profile websites like Starbucks.

Been there, loved it. — Two months ago I was in San Francisco for a few days, need ideas? Start the morning with a coffee at Sightglass Coffee. In the afternoon go for some sweets at Chile Pies & Ice Cream. End the day with a great dinner at RN74. Sightglass Coffee Coffee made from house-roasted beans served along with baked goods in a bi-level, industrial space. Note: You’ll pay with Square here because Jack Dorsey invested in Sightglass Coffee.

“Real education has (almost) nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness.” by David Foster Wallace Video: http://bcove.me/k4zbmp1s