“This Is a Generic Brand Video” is a generic brand video made entirely with stock footage. Funny because it’s true 🙂
Monument Valley
AN ILLUSORY ADVENTURE OF IMPOSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE AND FORGIVENESS Having played the first few levels the game indeed is very slick; the MC Escher like puzzles are very cool. The app flow (navigation through menus and the like) is a bit slow paced though – I found myself tapping around (with no response) to get skip …
Night Walk
“Night Walk” takes you on an immersive journey through lively Cours Julien, a neighbourhood of Marseille famous for its unique atmosphere and street art. Listening to your guides Julie and Christophe, you can wander around the vibrant streets as if you were really there, thanks to 360-degree panoramas that we captured at night. Your walk …
Using Office for iPad: getting to work
Yosemite HD II
WebScaleSQL
WebScaleSQL is a collaboration among engineers from several companies that face similar challenges in running MySQL at scale, and seek greater performance from a database technology tailored for their needs. Those “several companies” are Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And the collaboration mentioned is a true collaboration: For example, to introduce a code change, a …
Dancing Math
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Really neat motion graphic for the upcoming game Tom Clancy’s The Division: In 2001, an operation known as “Dark Winter” was launched which was a real-world exercise that tested the emergency response to a bioterror attack on the United States. The simulation spiraled out of control within a few days, and predicted that a “breakdown …
On Web Development and Education
This blogpost is sparked by a conversation with, and blogpost by Joris, a lecturer IMD at Thomas More. Every now and then I have a chat with a colleague lecturer, be it one from the Technical University I teach at (HUB-KAHO) or another TU (Howest, Thomas More, KDG, etc). A recurring theme in our conversations …