Yesterday I decided to do some work with our issue tracker — I won’t name what issue tracking software we use, I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. Our issues are divided into projects, projects are further sub-divided into components. What I tried yesterday is just one thing: create a few issues. You’d say that’s a prettyContinue reading “Getting it wrong”
Monthly Archives: February 2013
FirefoxOS: Beyond Idealism
My former colleague Sergi Mansilla, now working on FirefoxOS, wrote a nice article about the promise of FirefoxOS: But Firefox OS will not be directly battling against other mobile platforms. Its main objective is to change the way the world develops mobile apps, and even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears inContinue reading “FirefoxOS: Beyond Idealism”
A Decade of Blogging
Today, it’s a decade ago that I wrote my very first blog post. That first post is a memorable one, one I often re-read for inspiration: I just installed my weblog, here I will post all kinds of stuff, you’ll see what’ll come. There’s a few things I like about this first post: It’s justContinue reading “A Decade of Blogging”
Fixing Events in Javascript
Events are an integral part of Javascript programming. No matter if you use Javascript in the browser or on the server with [node.js](http://nodejs.org), you will be listening to, and perhaps trigger numerous events. Yesterday [I talked about Twitter’s Flight, which, I argued, might be pushing events too far](https://zef.me/5390/decoupling-events-vs-dependency-injection). Nevertheless, the fact that something can beContinue reading “Fixing Events in Javascript”
Decoupling: Events vs. Dependency Injection
Twitter open sourced Flight: “a lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework from Twitter”. Its killer feature: develop components that are loosely coupled, through the power of events. Cool, right? We all love events. Events are a powerful idea. They give you a nice way to decouple, and a great way to support extensibility in your software, byContinue reading “Decoupling: Events vs. Dependency Injection”
Restyled
This weekend I re-themed this site in preparation of its one decade anniversary (in less than a week). It now has a responsive design, so it should also look better on your mobile devices. It’s not exactly where I want it to be yet, but it’s getting there.
Compulsive Blending
I seem to have an irrational compulsion to blend in, to appear to be a native wherever I go. I seem to have this most strongly in foreign cities and countries. I had it when I lived in Schiedam (in the west of The Netherlands, a foreign place, since I’m really from the north), IContinue reading “Compulsive Blending”
