links for 2009-12-03

• De Wever : « Scindons BHV sans négocier » – lesoir.be
  Conforté par la victoire de son parti, auteur de la plus grosse progression électorale en juin dernier, Bart De Wever, le président des nationalistes flamands (N-VA), se montre plus intraitable que jamais
  (tags: belgium politics)
• iBoot Camp | IBBT
  Do you think yourself a potential entrepreneur? Do you have a great idea for a new business? And are you a collaborating partner of IBBT within a research group in a university or an external partner (within one of IBBT’s projects)? Then you might be the idea owner we are looking for to join the iBoot camp. The call for ideas is now open (up to January 4th, 2010).
  (tags: ibbt entrepreneurship)
• What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
  I’ve spent the better part of the last 48 hours looking into the colossal fiasco that is the “Black Screen of Death” story. It’s a near-perfect case study in how Internet-driven tech journalism rewards sloppy reporting and how the echo chamber devalues getting the story right.
  (tags: journalism technology fail)
• 24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms
  Forms are usually seen as that obnoxious thing we have to markup and style. I respectfully disagree: forms (on a par with tables) are the most exciting thing we have to work with.

  Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article.

  (tags: html5 css design web programming tutorial css3 markup forms)
• PHP Advent 2009 / You Really Need to Learn JavaScript
  Now that you’re super-pumped to learn JavaScript, you should know that the vast majority of the books and resources on the Web suck. Typically, they’ll focus on simple recipies and JavaScript in the browser, and less on the core JS language. Understanding JS (independent of browser APIs) is, I think, essential to getting a good handle on the language. Fortunately, there are a few good resources for the core JS language:
  (tags: javascript php books development)
• Command-Click Safari Title to Navigate Website Directory Path – OS X Daily
  Command+Click the Title of any website window in Safari and you can pull up a nice navigable drop-down list of the websites directory paths. This is really handy if you’re deep in some archive or if you’re looking at an image and want to cut down to the parent directory. This tip also works in the Finder
  (tags: mac osx tips)