Monthly Archives: May 2005

I like version control systems. Since I got my VPS to run my own server stuff on I’ve been using “Subversion”:http://subversion.tigris.org to store many of my files in. This is not only great for when I screw things up and want to retrieve an older version of a file, but also for synchronisation between differentContinue reading “A Better Diff/Merge”

Since “Ajax was first launched as a term”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2005/03/19/and-it-got-a-name-ajax a lot has been happening in the web development world. If you’ve been reading the blogs, in particular the “Ajaxian blog”:http://www.ajaxian.com you will already know about it. If not, I’ll point you to some cool stuff now. First some examples:* “Cojax Source Code Viewer”:http://code.communityserver.org* “AjaxAdvocates example”:http://www.ajaxadvocates.com* “WICK”:http://wick.sourceforge.net/wick_sample/Continue reading “Ajax Update”

Scott Berkun is a project management consultant and writer. He previously worked at Microsoft as a lead program manager. He recently published a book called “The Art of Project Management”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007868/104-7397168-1549531?v=glance. Beside writing books Scott also publishes essays. Last month’s essay was entitled “Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas”:http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay40.htm and it’s a good read. I particularlyContinue reading “Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas”

Ok, I haven’t been posting a lot in the past week or two. That’s mainly because of some things happening in my personal life (that’s right, I’m rumoured to have one of those) that need some more attention. But anyway, my younger brother started with his high-school final exams today. Good luck Wouter! As youContinue reading “Bits ’n’ Pieces”

“Tjaard”:http://www.tjaard.nl/?p=52 handed me the music baton, so here we go. First of all, the size of my music collection. It’s not as big as “some people”:http://www.standardbehaviour.com/articles/2005/05/18/running-around-with-a-musical-baton. As a matter of fact, it fits all on my iPod. Admittedly, I sometimes remove stuff that I won’t probably ever listen to so that it will keep fitting.Continue reading “Hitting It With a Music Baton”

I want to point you all to one of my favourite weblogs in my 118-feed long subscriptions list: “O’Reilly Radar”:http://radar.oreilly.com/. Many of you will own an O’Reilly book. They’re the very good and expensives ones with the animals on the cover. O’Reilly always seems to launch the right books at the right moment. O’Reilly RadarContinue reading “The O’Reilly Radar”

Long-term readers of my blog might already have gotten some hints about how much I love Joel Spolsky. Shirts. Mugs. Posters. Books. I got ’em all. I won’t even talk to you if you haven’t read “Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers,Continue reading “Before You Write Another Line”

It’s 9 a.m. and I’m sitting in a computer room with air conditioning blowing in my eyes. It finally stopped raining. A small blue van arrives and stops accross the street from the building where I’m sitting. Three men step out. One man is about sixty years old, the other two are around twenty-five. OneContinue reading “Through the Window”

There’s a bunch of people wanting to start an open source (free, as in freedom) Java 5 implementation named Harmony (“Proposal”:http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200505.mbox/%3cCA4BEB82-3D84-457D-9531-1477DD749919@apache.org%3e, “FAQ”:http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200505.mbox/%3C50351021-6408-437D-949A-7AF2AD4DFD0F@apache.org%3E) under the Apache umbrella: We propose that we create a new Apache project, Harmony, that will achieve the following goals : 1) create a Compatible, independent implementation of J2SE 5 under the Apache LicenseContinue reading “Java in Harmony”

Everybody who started in a language other than a web scripting one has written programs like this: WriteLn(‘What”s your name?’);ReadLn(name);WriteLn(‘What”s your age?’);ReadLn(age);WriteLn(‘Hello ‘ + name + ‘, you are ‘ + age + ‘ years old.’); (Yeah sorry, I started in Turbo Pascal.) All was nice and dandy until you start writing web applications. AllContinue reading “Continuations”