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  • Project Cocoon has a new office

    Project Cocoon has a new office

    Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events...

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  • I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

    I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

    When Internationalized Domain Names became available last year, I jumped on the bandwagon and registered a couple. One of these is שָׁלוֹם.com (Shalom as written in Hebrew). I’ve not done anything with it since and thought it would be a good way to raise money...

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  • Google search suggestions

    Google search suggestions

    This is what Google suggested to me as search queries earlier today.

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  • Opera Unite – a first look

    Opera Unite – a first look

    [update] I got some unite services working now from any browser, must have been a glitch earlier — feel free to leave a comment on my fridge :)  Opera announced that they would “reinvent the Web” today — having spent some time going through what...

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  • FlashFocus.nl relaunched

    FlashFocus.nl relaunched

    This is a post for my Dutch speaking readers about the new and improved FlashFocus.nl community site.   Wat betreft nederlandstalige Flash community websites is er weinig twijfel dat FlashFocus.nl aan de absolute top staat. In 2003 was Flashtival, een evenement van FlashFocus, trouwens een...

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  • Community certification

    Community certification

    Over the last few years I’ve had several projects where I had to interview people to get involved on Flash/Flex/ActionScript projects — typically what happens is the client wants some sort of assurance that “nothing bad will happen” and somehow there is this perception that...

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  • A Closer Look at Mobile Vikings

    A Closer Look at Mobile Vikings

    If you live in Belgium chances are you will have heard about Mobile Vikings, a new MVNO on the market — one of their main objectives is to offer free mobile internet as part of their prepaid offer. Now that might not sound very impressive...

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  • Google Analytics – your stats are at risk of getting spammed

    Google Analytics – your stats are at risk of getting spammed

    I came across a surprising issue with Google Analytics yesterday when a client contacted me, it appeared page hits were getting logged for dozens of pages that don’t exist on his website. While I thought about the possibility of some PHP vulnerability or other security...

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  • Standing out in the blogosphere

    Standing out in the blogosphere

    Clo Willaerts, Marketing Manager at Sanoma Magazines and organizer of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners recently did a crowdsourced presentation on “Standing out in the blogosphere” and looks like I somehow made it in under the “Sharing and inspiring” header — very cool! There’s some really...

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  • I’m Devine

    I’m Devine

    Its official. I’m happy to say I’ve accepted a part-time position as a lecturer at the Technical University of West-Flanders where I’ll mainly be teaching Flash Platform technologies and helping to develop the Digital Design and Media aka Devine curriculum. Its a great opportunity to...

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