Programming education and smart contracts
While looking browsing at Quora I found this posting by a professor in New Zealand on why certain programming languages are taught at universities while being suboptimal for teaching. Reminds…
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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 !).…
Friend of Eclipse
I just became friend of Eclipse. The new version Kepler is available for friends of Eclipse, which is a good reason to do something I planned to do before.
Diginotar
I just updated my (virtual) server, on which this weblog is running too. The update log was rather interesting this time: Setting up tzdata-java (2011j-0ubuntu0.11.04) … Setting up ca-certificates (20090814+nmu2ubuntu0.1)…
Google buys Instantiations
A while a go I used to do Swing development, and I sometimes used the tool of Instantiations to develop my GUI. I quite liked the tool. Before that I…
McDonalds running Linux
A unix like OS on their video-screens outside, in shopping center Hoog Caterijne, Utrecht. At least something else then those Windows 95/98/NT screens I often see running at terminals, when…
Apple: 32 bit or 64 bit
I am about to download the latest version of Eclipse IDE, Helios. Naturally there are packages for various types of platforms. I know I have a Mac, however I also…