Depthmanager Flex

It seems that the famous Depthmanager introduced in Flash is not present in Flex. It looks like you have to use setChildIndex in the DisplayObjectContainer class. See Adobe flex reference »

Elections and the internet

I found out today that one party wants to create an online platform on which members of every party can vote for everything that is discussed in parliament. They have two major program points: Internet democracy and everyone in the Netherlands should »

Evaluating research for dummies

Often research that makes it into students work or in is used in newspapers does not make sense. The research sometimes is done by parties that have a direct interest in outcome. Here are questions you should ask yourselves before you just copy the »

Elections and media politics

Last week I was trying out some of the electronic voting guides. The most famous one is Stem wijzer, and another is Kies compas. Interesting is that kies compas uses ajax to visualize your position in the political field. The statements used by both »