Author Archives: Dominiek ter Heide

The Rise of JS and the New Server-side

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: February 3, 2010
I started writing this article in my excitement of Server-side Javascript (SSJS) and how I’ve become increasingly interested in Javascript (JS) over the past years. But at the end of the day, Javascript is just another programming language, its importance is defined by the frameworks and applications that are built on top of it. But [...]
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Rethinking the Knowledge Economy

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: December 5, 2009
During the few ‘off hours’ I have, I love thinking about innovation and technological change in the grand scheme of things. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I did a weekend trip to New York on my own budget to attend the Singularity Summit 2009 – a conference of futurists. In my recent thinking [...]
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The Synaptic Web

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: November 8, 2009
The Real-time Web (RTW) is buzzing all over the place, but I’m amazed by the amount of different interpretations of it. The RTW – or better said: large scale activity streams – are indeed reshaping the entire business and technology landscape, but how? This will be the first post of a series of articles that [...]
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A Twitter Bot in One Line of Code

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: September 25, 2009
Yep! It really IS possible with only one line of BASH (Terminal) code using the new Twitter Streaming API. Using a series of chained commands, this Twitter Bot listens for occurrences of ‘one line’ in the Twittersphere and will follow that person. Here’s a version with some extra space for readability (does not really work [...]
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5 Short Sci-fi Art Videos

By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: September 17, 2009
Some nice arty technology clips that I’ve collected from my attention trail. Artificial Paradise Inc By Jean-Paul Frenay (via Humanity+). A good Nano-tech teaser. Uploaded Companies By Jean-Paul Frenay As One By Makoto Yabuki What’s in the Box? This short clip got a lot of attention, because it’s made by a young Dutch physics student named Tim Smit, with a budget of 125 [...]
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