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To me it has allways been a joy to deliver information in an understandable form. Being 45 years old I have seen some patterns within my own behaviour (why did it take so long I often ask myself!). Communicating information is a hard task – I prefer to take the piece of information into another form which the reciever will understand. Often transforming the information into something visual make it more likely that the message (information) send will be recieved by the reciever as something close to the original message. Tonight I just found a great website! The website www.informationisbeautiful.net contains several examples of how well information can be consumed if delivered in the correct form!

What is truely healthy for you?

To the right you see an example. This interactive visualiazation will show you what is healty for you. For your eyes, skin or other of the selectable uses and types. It is very convincing and inspiring I think.

So go visit it here: http://bit.ly/aGoeom

“When sea levels attack”

Another example of visualazation – giving you something to think about…

I have a dream…

In Denmark we pay a lot of tax, that is not a problem – I would however like to at least get to know what I am paying to! So my dream is to have some cool visualization of what the tax I pay for now could be said to cover. I know how much I earn per month, which lets me calculate a tax per hour/minute number. So what you should imagine is: You calculate how much tax I pay on say a national level. You then divide the national tax “spenditures” and get end up with a calender showing for instance for how many weeks I work and pay for the danish armed forces. Or if I look at the clock now: Who am I paying to right now? So the dream would let any person in Denmark log on to a portal which would give such information to them.

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I know that nothing is perfect, but today I saw JAXER a server running javascript! It is based on the mozilla javascript engine which means that it understands the same level of javascript that Firefox does!

So is this a dream?
Well to start with I love javascript! It’s so flexible and fits very well for the internet. With the many very cool APIs appearing nowadays – like JQuery, prototype and other – you would be able to use the same terms, methodes and datastructures on both client- as well as server-side! Google and Yahoo are building serious javascript free APIs which you simply use on the server rather than on the browser.

I just watched a video showing an example where a RSS feed is fetched as XML, transformed using XSLT and added to the DOM using various javascript APIs. Server side that is!

You would be able to manipulate the DOM using javascript syntax and APIs before the page is returned to the browser.

But how do I get it?
Well you can get locally by downloading Aptana framework, which is also very powerfull in general – even if you do not want to play around with serverside javascript.

It is mentioned that it has its own JAXER server, not sure if it means that you will be able to host it only some places… time will show! For now I keep on dreaming!

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It’s always a challange when building a new website to find the ballance between what the customer (says he) needs and what the experts (read: people like me working and thinking on the internet) thinks he needs. It can be seen as two oppersites, but I think that it is actually not the case.

The “small” things makes up the difference
When you shop in real life you may have tried to shop in a shopping house where things are handled in a personal manner: You get service, guidence, choices and small things like the way the products are wrapped makes a difference. You feel like you are a person which the shop actually takes serious and handles as an important customer.

On the other hand discount shops focus on one thing only: The price. Somehow it has been become a constant, if you want good prices you must accept poor service, no-personal handling of customer and other things. Perhaps you could draw a line to the way fast food works..?

When it comes to websites sometimes rules like the ones above also seems to apply. I think that it is my risponsebility to be serious about (at least) my part of the development of a website. I should ensure that the content on a website is upto date when it comes to webstandards – from javascript over HTML/CSS to things like XFN and microformats. Here however sometimes is a problem:  People tend to think that implementing things like microformats will add more time to the production time. I do not agree!

The methodes which we as web-developers use should simply be build upon tools ensuring that things like publishing microformat is not something extra – it should be standard. Like in the shopping house which offers a high level of quality,  I would prefer quality instead of discount. It should all be part of the identity of any webdeveloper! Or any company working with the internet.

Tools like WordPress in its basic form support all such quality assuring technologies! So thank you WordPress for making me smile: Serious web publishing tools long live!

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