Cobol in nodejs
Cobol can be compiled into Javascript and you can call Javascript from Cobol, as I read in this article on arstechnica. Will this finally be the way out for all…
Author: gerbrand
OpenGrok, make your code searchable
Any organization that develops software has a lot of software around that could be potentially reused. Reusing software is of course a good thing. Serendipity, accidentally coming across useful code…
Five applications based blockchain
Bitcoin’s only some weird digital money, interesting to cypherpunks only? With nearly all financial institutions investigating or investing in Bitcoin-related technologies I guess the answer is obvious. But does Bitcoin…
Bunq, Dutch startup with banking license
A Dutch start-up has a banking licence: Bunq. According to their blog they use Object-Oriented PHP as language of choice, which get me more worried than excited. Nevertheless, quite cool that a…
Cluster at home
When I was a student I had old desktop computer in running in the closet which acted as a server. The server hosted my homepage, email-domain, fileserver and sort of…
Scala Days 2015 Amsterdam
Two weeks ago I visited Scala Days 2015, in Amsterdam. The conference was great, with a lot of high level content. Sessions I visited. I’ve attempted to order them by…
Joy of coding, property-based testing
Afgelopen vrijdag heb ik Joy of Coding bezocht, een conferentie voor programmeurs. Ik wilde met name John Hughes horen, onder meer bekend van de paper ‘Why functional programming matters‘ (uit 1984 !).…
Online diary on the fly
For quite a while I just to have digital personal diary. First as a text file stored in my computer, occasionally backed up on cd. Then I switched to ohlife.com.…
Hoe kijk jij tegen softwareontwikkeling aan?
Wat is software, hoe creëer je nieuwe programma’s? Wat is programmeren? Hoe iemand tegen softwareontwikkeling kijkt, bepaalt veel hoe iemand tegen problemen en uitdagingen in de IT kijkt. Voor sommige…
Functional programming in Scala
I’ve completed the Coursera course Functional Programming Principles in Scala, with a Verified certificate! Going through the course was a nice experience. It felt a-lot like the university years, including even…