If you are like most programmers, you don’t think of CSS as a programming language. It’s a description language, it describes the look of elements on a website. While developing your next super-cool web application you describe the visuals using CSS and it feels like you are writing a book instead of an application, losing sight of all the CSS as you keep developing. If you have already written CSS you most probably have…
Read moreKirby CMS is a flat file CMS and powers my website. Therefore, I store all related files under version control in a git repository. Dealing only with files makes deploying a new version to my server a breeze. Well, at least it should. My website is hosted on a shared hosting provider, where I only have limited shell access. Building Kirby CMS is installed through git submodules. That makes installing and updating Kirby very simple and controllable.
Read moreHello! You are just reading my first blog post. I have thought about blogging for quite some time, but since have not found the time to do so. As I have recently finished some projects I now want to start this blog as a new project of mine. Purpose of this blog With this blog I want to share and discuss interesting topics related to web development. I want to teach the things I have learned the hard way to fellow developers on the same journey.
Read moreI attended a seminar on large scale visualization and wrote a paper on high dimensional data visualization, comparing different techniques. A key concept of high dimensional data visualization is dimensionality reduction, in order to reduce the number of dimensions to be visualized. The paper covers linear (principal component analysis) and non-linear (local linear embedding, ISOMAP, t-SNE) dimensionality reduction techniques. The paper has been peer-reviewed in class. The title photo is a visualization of the MNIST dataset - a database of handwritten digits.
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