Apprentice in software
When you want to become a pilot, you’ll first have to be a co-pilot (after your training). You’ll won’t become a medical professional without working with an experienced doctor first.…
Virtual secretary
Most of my friends are in there are twenty/thirty something and have quite a busy (social live). Making appointsments can be quite cumbersome, especially when multiple people are involved. Fortunately,…
Springsource and electric cars
Just read an article on electric cars in of the Saturday’s edition of the NRC – a Dutch newspaper, which can be found online at the authors blog (in Dutch).…
Proxying authentication using JBoss
Wouldn’t it be nice if the connection to the database is done using the same username as the username used to login to a (JEE) application? Oracle has a solution…
Scala and Java
When you say Ruby, you say Rails. When you say Groovy, you say unit-tests, scripting and integration. Well that might be over-acted, but that’s what most people make of it.…
Google Docs and MS-Office
Google Docs is a great tool store and edit documents online. MS-Office is a pretty good tool as well. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could open documents stored at…
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…