If you thought that In Belgium we speak Dutch, French and German you were wrong! In a country occupied by other people and cultures for most of our history our languages have mixed and matched for hundreds of years! Where Dutch meets French originates Brussels and "De Fanfaar" is proud to present you its second single Tellevees.
A couple of weeks ago I read about the design consequences exercise and thought it would be interesting to try it out. Since we're at the start of the development of a smallish site this was a good opportunity to see what we could learn from that exercise.
How I Prepared
A little while ago I helped on a drupal project that wanted website thumbnails on their "links" page. For this they used the websnapr module but instead of showing bubbles they showed a nice thumbnail next to the link. Often when using someone else's technology I wonder how difficult it would be to do it myself and in this case, with the open source gecko and webkit engines it shouldn't be too difficult.
After reading this develoop blog entry I wondered if gtimelog would work on windows. After finding and installing all the puzzle pieces I can say it does! Here's how: