Develop with faster with smarter tools
I develop software for a living. This involves quite a lot of talking, coaching, attending meetings, drinking coffee, etc. but the actual work is done during programming – when the…
Very old accounts
I’ve been on the Internet since 1997. I was also on Fidonet since 1995, until I got high speed internet (2Mbit shared) in 2000. I keep all my passwords in…
Gen Xers, Gen Y’s and the Millennium generation
From the newsletter of TheServerSide.com I received a whitepaper of Instantiations, a GUI building tool. While I haven’t read the entire paper yet, the introduction was quite intriguing; Graphical user…
Software: bouwen of ontwerpen?
Software werd in de afgelopen decennia steeds belangrijker binnen de overheid, en bij vrijwel alle overheidsinstanties is software de kurk waarop de bureaucratie drijft. Verbazingwekkend lijken de meeste mensen bij…
Cloud storage, review of Zumodrive
A while ago a reviewed a few online storage solutions. I especially liked Zumodrive, second to Dropbox. Now I found a nice article that reviews Zumodrive and compares it to…
Presentations
I am subscribed to several technology related newsletters, including those of InfoQ. Very often these newsletters feature very interesting content. Unfortunately, a increasingly large portion of those newsletters now includes…
JFall report
Ik heb een verslag geschreven over JFall 2009 voor Whitehorses, het bedrijf waarvoor ik werk. Hier is de officiele introductie Op 11 november 2009 werd JFall 2009, een van de…
Whitebook on parallel programming
Via the newsletter of Whitehorses, the company I work for, an article written by me is published: Gebruik de multi-core omgeving met Java 7 . As the title suggest, the…
JFall on Google Guice
Yesterday I’ve submitted a paper to NLJUG, the Dutch Java User Group for the JFall 2009 conference. Together with colleagues we worked on a proposal for a very nice presentation…
In between LAN-sync, Dropbox
On both my laptop and my desktop computer I have Zumodrive running, a form of Internet storage I wrote about before. When I store something on my desktop while my…