The nice people over at Architexa have decided to offer free (gratis) licenses to individuals and small teams for their code analysis tools, and asked me to take a look at it and provide some feedback. As stated in my Read more
Three or four months ago, I received an email from an on-line advertising agency inquiring whether I would be interested in allowing in-article ads on my blog. I thought about it for about a second, and immediately answered with a Read more
I just read how Facebook changed all e-mail addresses to use their @facebook.com domain. Now, unless I misread something, I seem to recall my information section is about me, and so it’s not really up to them to change it. Read more
In a previous post, I talked about how a projector failure at the 010DEV event resulted in the presentation using laptops, smartphones and tablets to display the slides. One of the problems here, as noted by speaker Trisha Gee, is Read more
In my previous entry, I mentioned that when the projector failed to function, laptops, tablets and smartphones were used to display the slides instead. When I think of conference presentations, I tend to think of something like this: The scale Read more
On May 25th, I had the pleasure of attending the first 010DEV* event in Rotterdam. It was a beautiful, hot sunny day – certainly too hot to make the mistake I did, which was to walk 3km in the wrong Read more
I love my job as a software engineer. I love it so much, in fact, that whenever I have time, I do it for free by working on open-source software and writing about software development on this excuse for a Read more
Work on the new module repository for Play is progressing nicely, but a very subtle bug was introduced into the Build.scala file. As a result, artifacts from the first repository were not being found. Can you spot the difference here? Read more
There seems to be some confusion regarding Play 2 modules and plugins. I imagine this is because the two are often synonymous. In Play (both versions – 1 and 2) there are distinct differences. In this post, I’m going to Read more
This post is coming quite a way after the fact, but I just read this tweet from Pamela Fox and it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to mention this for ages. Back in November at Devoxx here in Belgium, Read more