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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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