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Nov 02

Back to Basics – good comments are targeted comments

steve4 Commentsfundamentals, Software engineering, thoughtsgood practice, software engineering, thoughts

I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a meetup group for fans of it. Outside of code that I write for Read more

Oct 06

Thoughts on the Belgian Play! Framework User Group dojo

steveLeave a commentBelgian Play! Framework User Group, play frameworkdojo, play-be, play!, thoughts

The 3rd of October saw the Belgian Play! Framework User Group hold its first coding dojo and overall, it was a success. It’s the first time I’ve been involved in the organisation of anything like this, although the vast majority Read more

Sep 27

PlayBe Dojo – all seats booked, and ready to go

steveLeave a commentBelgian Play! Framework User Group, play framework, thoughtsdojo, play!, playbe, thoughts

With less than a week to go until the Belgian Play! Framework User Group holds its first coding dojo, all 20 places have now been taken.  I was half-way through a blog post to promote it when person #20 signed Read more

Aug 10

The value of independence

steveLeave a commentgeneral, thoughtsadvertising, i'm-not-a-shill, independence, reviews, thoughts

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

Jun 26

Facebook…hmmm

steveLeave a commentthoughtsdata harvesting, facaebook, thoughts

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

May 30

How to confuse a Belgian call-center operator

steveLeave a commentlife, thoughtsbelgium, cell centers, life, thoughts

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

May 08

Women in IT – thoughts triggered by a female colleague

steve5 Commentspersonal, thoughtsdo i sound like a dipshit here?, thoughts, women in IT

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

May 02

The Play Framework is now officially an embarrassment

steve26 Commentsopen source, play framework, thoughtsjava, open source, play!, thoughts

If you’ve read any other entries on this blog, you’ll know that I’m an advocate of the Play! Framework. As of today, this has changed. My client is currently in the process of migrating their services to a federated collection Read more

Apr 08

Sometimes, it’s like the internet never happened – listen and learn, Disney

steveLeave a commentpersonal, thoughtsdisney, life, thoughts

Ever read Freakonomics? There’s a great chapter on how internet-accessible information drove down insurance premiums massively. The same story can be found in many places – but some companies are apparently completely oblivious to this. Which is the specific company Read more

Mar 21

Why Doctor Who sucks, and Tinkerbell rocks

steve34 Commentseducation, thoughtseducation, software engineering, thoughts

To start, a couple of disclaimers: 1. Growing up, I loved Doctor Who – both the TV series and books. Can’t add anything else to this particular disclaimer – I absolutely loved them. 2. On a similar, yet diametrically opposed, Read more

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