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  • The end of the era of magic (I want coaches, not wizards)

    Five years and one day ago I wrote my first blogpost . Blogging has done more to and for me than I could ever imagine so this celebration is worth a little rant on a subject which has changed most over these years. Five years ago I was still with one foot in the Delphi world. Delphi was at the time where...
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  • (R) evolutionary changes

    When developing software you are dealing with changes. Changes in what your creations have to do; changes in the way you create your software. The process of change sometimes seems to be a goal on itself. We are almost beaten to death by both the enormous amount of new tools and techniques to create...
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  • Specialize ! In how, not in what

    At the start of a new year, whose name is in many a new product, it's a good moment for some small reflections before rushing on. My job over the years has been "with computers". To most people in my surroundings, including my wife, there is no big difference in setting up a network drive...
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  • Never, ever leave a disc in your server’s CD-drive

    This may sound hilarious but gave me quite a start. My (Windows) server has automatic updates switched on. Once in a while it reboots, never a problem. Until last night. In the drive was still a (bootable) disk. After reboot it’s been prompting all night whether I wanted to install a 32-bit or the 64...
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  • A program manager should be an architect

    What is an architect ? There are many definitions around, varying from "an elitist in an ivory tower throwing down incomprehensible documents" to "a developer more equal than others". In a previous post I quite boldly stated that an architect always should be a coder and nearly everybody...
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  • An architect should code. Period

    This has been said over and over again, but as long as it keeps happening it just has to be said again. A very common career path in IT "promotes" a coder over the years to a program manager with architect responsibilities. And being an architect they stop writing code themselves. The thing...
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  • What is wrong about DataDude ?

    As a First answer: nothing at all. I've seen a number of demo's, seen people work with it, read about it and I like it. Quite a nice tool. My problem is that I cannot work with it myself. I have "Visual Studio Team system for workgroups" edition. Which includes many team server tools...
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  • ICT should be just a tool, not a means on itself

    Most of us are pretty passionate about technology. We have no problem in losing a night of sleep on a tool to build stuff for our customers. But in the end we are only creating tools which helps them to run their affairs. In the end your customer does not care what methodology or coding language was...
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  • 500. And now this blog is out of control

    Yesterday Jeffrey published his 500th post without even mentioning the milestone. Scott Sam was aware of his 150 th New and Notable . And today this is my 500th post. Some short words looking back and ahead. Over the posts and years a lot has happened. To me the most fascinating is that I'm no longer...
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  • A blog is not a helpdesk

    Please forgive me when this appears a little rude, but I just have to get this of my chest. I do answer every email question but recently I am bombarded with comments asking for help on some this or that. I know my blog has a lot of hints to solve many a small tidbit you just have to get solved to get...
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  • The page life-cycle is not just hard for developers

    A recent post by Karl on the page_load event again mentioned how hard it is to fully understand the life cycle of an asp.net page. In a comment Fregas even mentions switching to PHP (or RoR) to get a better grip on it. IMHO this is running away from the core of the problem which is (still imho) the web...
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  • Iso Images and Vista

    More and more software is rolled out in the form of an ISO image. You can do two things with these: mount them in a virtual drive or burn them to (re-)writable disk. Both options were cumbersome and still are under Vista. A lot of DVD burning packages, like the popular Nero, support both options. I have...
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  • Blog tag

    Sander tagged my blog; now it's my turn. Five things you (probably) don't know about me and maybe don't want to know either. Over the years I already introduced my sons Niek (1996), Cas (1998) and Mees (2000). Their mum, my wife Mirjam, so far escaped public chatter. She is the nightmare...
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  • Worst goodies

    The year is almost over. So is the project of tidying up my office. The best things found, which also takes up space in a quite uneconomic way, are all the personal souvenirs. Like the beautiful cardboard creations by my kids. And there are goodies. Good goodies , redundant goodies and bad goodies. What...
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  • The end of the game port

    Sinterklaas, the original Santa Claus, still honors his country of origin. December 5 th he visits the Netherlands to shower kids of all ages with presents. This year that included some in-house shuffling with the gaming PC and game controllers. As old Santa has difficulties in staying up to date with...
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