Hello on Tom's ramblings

The goal of software architecture

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0200

The goal of software architecture is to build abstract models on top of behavioral models, so your software becomes easier to maintain and/or optimize.

The issue with SCRUM, SAFe, DDD and other methodologies

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:30:00 +0100

Today I saw someone on Instagram checking out what SCRUM means - trolling obviously -, and to be honest, it is both hilarious and cringe-worthy (Dutch only):

Reference by value in TypeScript

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0100

I am currently examining ways to improve development UX for a low-code platform that I’m opening up to the public.

Software estimates done right

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0100

So, how do you estimate a software development effort? Ha, that’s easy; there is a website called The Estimate Goat, that provides you random estimates every time you refresh the page!

An update

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:26:11 +0200

It has been a while since I have updated this blog, so I decided to give you a small overview of what happened and what I am currently doing.

2015 retrospective

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:49:41 +0100

As I have a spare hour while my kids and the Mrs. watch “The Grinch” (which is an awesome Christmas movie by the way), I decided to take half an hour to reflect and sit back.

Brain dump #2: How I'd implement Tesla's Autopilot feature - levels of AI

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:25:03 +0100

About two weeks ago, I decided to have some healthy life changes, and one of them is walking to my office.

Brain dump #1: How I'd implement Tesla's Autopilot feature

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:25:03 +0100

I recently saw this tweet by Elon Musk, who is looking for developers for their Autopilot feature: We are looking for hardcore software engineers.

Are new `.js` ui frameworks and - libs a fad?

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:42:18 +0100

Good question! TL-DR: Most are, except: jQuery React vue.js Frameworks - not for me! In web UI, frameworks like BackBone, Ember and Angular might be all nice and stuff, but when you start using them to compose larger applications, things tend to break down quite easily with less experienced developers.

Foldable for non-Haskellers: Haskell's controversial FTP proposal

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:46:54 +0200

In the Haskell world, there is currently a big fuss about the “Foldable/Traversable in Prelude”-proposal. Edit: For the record: it was a proposal, and has been implemented in the current version of Haskell (GHC)

DDD elevator pitch

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:07:19 +0200

DDD elevator pitch@ToJans In business, you make fine-grained adjustments all the time, in order to stay ahead of the competition.

Hangman in Haskell

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:23:42 +0200

As I noticed a question for a more idiomatic Haskell version of the game Hangman on codereview.stackoverflow.com, I decided to give it a go; this is the result:

Propositions as types and the future of programming

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:08:56 +0200

What’s all the fuss about? Quite recently, Philip Wadler published the paper “Propositions as Types” If I understood this correctly, this is about the fact that the application of a function to a type is also a type.

Insanity & start-ups

Thu, 07 May 2015 07:06:00 +0200

VCs are looking for start-ups who outperform their competitors not by a ten-fold, but at least a hundred- or a thousand-fold.

Building your own product

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:00:26 +0100

Phase 0 In March 2014, I was looking for a new project. I had an idea to generate sales leads for an up-market sunroom builder , so pitched it, setup a POC and successfully sold the idea.

How to explain dependent typing

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Take an average programmer - let’s call him Joe D. - and have him talk to a fictitious academic called Alan T.

My favorite Ziobrando quotes

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:31:12 +0100

Every once in a while Alberto Brandolini - also known as “Ziobrando” - generates brilliant quotes. These are some of my personal favorites:

Confessions of a start-up consultant

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:19:46 +0100

About a year ago I was talking to one of my business mentors; he asked: “How do I get on the first page of Google search?

about dependent typing, Idris and the road to Valhalla

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Due to my DDD background, I am constantly on a quest for the utopian domain model. Last week during the Build Stuff 2014 conference I saw a presentation by Amanda Laucher about dependent typing that spiked my interest.

The definitive guide to microservices

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Renamed and moved to “The essence of microservices”.

The essence of microservices

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

During the DDDQ lean coffee last weekend the question on microservices popped up once again. This is not my first post about this subject, but apparently people wanted to know more.

The ultimate decision tree that tells you if language/technology/framework/library/... is a good choice

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve all been bitten in the past: should I use TDD / BDD / DDD / CQRS / Messaging / C# / F# / Java / JavaScript / MVC / RFP / Actors / Erlang / Elixir / Haskell / OCaml / Scala / Clojure / Windows / Linux / MacOs / CSS / SASS / Haml / (The new shiny thing (tm) ) / …

OO vs FP

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Today I was having a discussion on twitter, and after re-reading my timeline and seeing this tweet, I decided to blog about it.

Functors, applicatives and monads for CSharp developers - part 2

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR: A C# List implementation respecting the category theory Haskell usually uses. So, after implementing the Maybe Monad in C# respecting category theory yesterday, I decided to implement the list as well, to gain a deeper understanding of it.

Imitation, innovation and 'the love for the game'

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

As I posted this tweet In communities, others take credit for/copy the things you do. Be flattered and understand the why: they probably lack insight and "fiero".

Functors, applicatives and monads for csharp developers

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

For me personally, the whole functor/applicative/monad thing was one of the hardest things to grasp when studying FP. Being familiar with C#, I wondered why these concepts were missing in C#, so I decided - as an exercise and to see if I really understood it - to implement it in C#.

De politieke partijen hebben alle voeling met de kiezer verloren

Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Kijk maar naar hun partijprogramma en aanvallen naar minderheidspartijen; blijkbaar hebben de politieke partijen niets begrepen van de motivering achter het stemgedrag in de opinies.

The lean start-up triangle

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

At first: "Yeah, build-measure-learn; easy, I get it..." Now: "Wow, I didn't get that at all! I wonder how much more I missed!

What I learned from 3 years of CQRS and FP

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I am currently setting up part of a BC for a customer, and it took me some refactoring after having not done any serious .

CQRS and functional programming

Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

So, a little while ago, while I was studying Haskell, I decided to implement Greg Young’s SimpleCQRS example in Haskell.

Why 100% test coverage proves nothing

Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This is the follow-up to my previous post. I wrote an example - obviously badly written on purpose - by which I prove why 100% code coverage is useless.

Selling DDD

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A little while ago, we gave a series of short talks called “DDD Basics” for the Belgian Domain-driven design community. The focus was on strategic design.

Trolling the 100% TDD coverage approach - or not

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When I read this blog post about how and why one should achieve 100% code coverage on his code, I was flabbergasted, and when I noticed Bart’s reply, I decided to check:

Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I received yet another “interesting” job offer, which looked like this: Wanted: "senior .Net architect" Description "build one framework to build all future projects, using sharepoint" #ThanksButNoThanks

observe, learn and be humble

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Observations are useless without context. * Understanding the the observer's POV, state of mind and past experience usually tends to shed a whole new light to observations… *

February will be awesome

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

After chatting with a lot of friends yesterday, I realized: February will be awesome. Here’s why: I get to finish the Erlang FoundationDB driver.

micro-service-architecture versus SOA-EDA

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

@pjvds @FransBouma it sounds like (-micro) services. Isn't this what everyone has been saying for about a decade? Soa+eda? Why new things?

Fixing blatantly obvious wrong assumptions is hard

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

So, yesterday I had another one of those “in your face moments”: While working on the Erlang FoundationDB driver, I spent a lot of time on a bug that was so blatantly obvious that I did not notice it for a long time.

Recruiter due diligence

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Dear $FIRSTNAME, We have an amazing opportunity for you: We are looking for a senior recruitment supervisor manager leadership executive assistant helper.

Growing software teams: size DOES matter

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Growing software teams The problem Consider the amount of different communication channels (that relate directly to communication overhead and potential misunderstandings) on teams growing in size using the formula N*(N-1)/2:

Enjoyed programmer anarchy - looking for the next project

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This is the last post in what had to be a series of posts about my experiences working for HappyPancake.

Best posts 2013

Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

2013 has been a good year; migrating my blog from blogengine to a more up-to-date blogging platform nearly doubled my visitors in the second half of the year, although it might have been the content as well.

The future of society: why a lot of big organisations will cease to exist

Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

This post is an attempt to predict what the following decades will look like. I wrote a more technical post about this 3 years ago, which still makes sense far as I’m concerned.

Somehow, my understanding about how this applies to non-software things has evolved, and after trying to make my point on twitter, I decided to elaborate in this blog post about my assumptions on the future.

Disclaimer

I’m only slightly aware about “the how” of the technology that could drive these things. My assumptions are purely based on my observations about how people interact with devices and technology at this very moment.

First things first: what happened last decade? #KnowledgeEconomy

I would definitely say the past decade has been all about knowledge economy, i.e. the democratization of knowledge.

Knowledge used to be something people used to consider exclusive. In the world of today, people no longer consider knowledge something exclusive, as almost everyone can search information about almost anything on the internet. One could say, that it is no longer valuable what people know, but what makes the difference is how people apply and combine that knowledge.

As knowledge is becoming a commodity, people are starting to share knowledge, others improve it and publish their conclusions. One could say that the speed by which we learn is growing exponentially, just because we can share it and get feedback in a way people from a few decades ago could not even have imagined.

towards a more elegant fizzbuzz

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This morning I saw this tweet: blogged: Clojure Kata #1 � Fizz Buzz https://t.co/kdZvqjzkRa — JanVanRyswyck (@JanVanRyswyck) 19 december 2013 As Jan is learning Clojure, he was exploring the fizzbuzz code kata.

The extrema of system integration

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

There seems to be a lot of confusion on this subject, so I decided to give my very opinionated view on the subject.

Enjoying programmer anarchy: HappyPancake - Introduction and Swedish culture

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This is the first post in a series of posts about my experiences working for HappyPancake: Introduction & Swedish culture.

Enjoying programmer anarchy: HappyPancake - Remoting

Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Note: This is the second post in a series of posts about my experiences working for HappyPancake: Introduction & Swedish culture.

DDD 101 tips

Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Here are my tips for getting started with DDD; they were written as a response to a question in the BE-DDD newsgroup:

life's playlist

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Why “life’s playlist” ? As I was traveling home from a very nice trip I was once again composing a playlist that somehow matched my memories.

DDDBE meetup #2 - Legacy Inferno

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

After the great feedback of the first event, the Belgian DDD community had to do a second one, and last Thursday we did:

monads

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

So, what is a monad? I get sick and tired of people making simple things complicated, so when someone told me he was going to take a look at what a monad is, I assumed it was time to intervene; this is [the wikipedia explanation](https://en.

Software architects, you are doing it wrong

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction A post by @abdullin nailed it pretty good: software architects are doing it wrong all the time. Here’s why:

Visualizing Event Storming

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is just a sketch that tries to explain my understanding about how Alberto Brandolini’s Event Storming works. Next time I will skip the pencils and use a marker

On Erlang, concurrency, parallelism and Haskell

Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Disclaimer Please note that I have zero experience in Haskell, so these statements are all assumptions based on an afternoon of study.

The very first #DDDBE event: the modellathon

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is my personal review of the @DDDBE inaugural meeting: a modellathon. Some background info So, last night we had the very first event of the Belgian DDD community: a modellathon facilitated by Mathias Verraes and Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse, and kindly hosted by the hosting company Combell.

The 5 simple rules of software development

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

1. Throw away first iterations > Do it right the first time When writing software, good enough is usually all it takes; the minute your good enough code starts hurting, is when you should replace it.

reply to Mathias' blog post about Systemantics - The Systems Bible

Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Some context @MathiasVerraes just published a short review about a book called “Systemantics - The Systems Bible” by John Gall.

Build a simple chart website in a few minutes with Elixir

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As I am currently thinking about setting up a social platform for Elliot Wave analysis, I decided to use Elixir as my new platform, to see if it would be doable.

Event sourcing for the rest of us

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I recently saw a discussion on twitter about the definition of event sourcing: Event sourcing: persisting entities by appending all state transitions to transaction log.

Learn Elixir (or Ruby, Javascript, Clojure) through exercism.io

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I am currently in the process of improving my Elixir skills using the site Exercism.io. What’s Exercism.io? Exercism.io is a really neat concept: it provides you a platform to learn a new development language, where you get feedback on your exercises from other users who previously succeeded in completing the exercise.

Handle recruitment spam like a boss

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As you all know, I am fed up with recruiters playing keyword lottery , and I did post how recruiters should act, but most of them still continue playing keyword lottery.

Running elixir on my Android tablet

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As the Mrs. does not allow me to take the laptop on vacation, but we do take the tablet with us, I decided to find out whether Elixir runs on an Android tablet.

I experimented for about an hour or so, and apparently it is quite easy. Here is my proof:

#elixir on android, now all I need is a REPL! #DirtyHackButItWorks #SL4A #Erlang4Android -pa /elixir/lib/elixir/ebin pic.twitter.com/cAN2Ez4UQb
— Tom Janssens (@ToJans) June 25, 2013

How do you do this

With a lot of unicorns and fairydust… No, actually it is quite simple….

Why I contribute to OSS projects

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I spent quite some time contributing patches to the Elixir project lately, and I am quite proud of it: Some people have been asking me why I spend so many time on contributing patches to a relatively unknown OSS project, and others - coming from a non-ICT-background asked me why I bother to work on someone else’s product for free, while I can charge thousands of Euros to other companies.

DDD in a tweet

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The essence of DDD: make the implicit explicit (language, boundaries, code) and evolve your model so it matches the domain /cc @julielerman

Blogging: less is more and my name is my brand

Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction It has been about 10 years ago, since I opted for a blogging platform called BlogEngine.Net, which was - at the that moment -

Open brief aan de Belgische overheid: hoe los je de crisis op

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introductie Ik zag net een tweet verschijnen van Karel Van Eetvelt - de CEO van UNIZO -, dat het niet goed gaat met de Vlaamse werkgevers

Installing and compiling Elixir and the Dynamo web framework on Windows

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

People following me on twitter noticed I got entangled in yet another new language for the Erlang/BEAM VM:

Elixir could be easily described as "ruby for the BEAM/Erlang VM". In previous posts, I mentioned why people should learn Erlang, but in fact, I think most people might be better off when they skip Erlang and opt directly for Elixir. It has all the advantages of Erlang, but offers a Ruby-like syntax, macros, polymorphism and more.

As someone else made a perfect blog post on why you should learn Elixir, I will not elaborate further on it in this post. Read his post; the info is all there.

As usual, you can find more info about Elixir on Wikipedia , or on the Elixir site.

In this post, I will show you how to get started with Elixir and generate a template website using the Dynamo web framework.

Installing Elixir is simple, but because one of the Dynamo web framework dependencies requires the make tool, you need to do some extra work. If anybody finds a better/simpler way to do this, please let me know in the comments.

How to hire a senior developer

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

A little while ago I wrote a post the fallacies of the tech recruitment process. While it is nice to point out what is wrong, I never actually provided the proper way to find out if a senior developer might be experienced enough and the right fit for your company, so this time I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and tell you how to hire a senior developer.

Why hire a "senior developer" and what is a senior developer exactly

In my opinion, a senior developer is a developer who manages to think out of the box, and who does not stop reasoning about finding a solution at technical boundaries. A senior developer is somebody who tries to provide business value for every single step he makes, while a junior is more or less focussed on implementing the whole thing, a senior thinks about what he has to do and why he has to do it...

Erlang Camp Amsterdam: why you should follow it and getting started with Erlang and Axiom

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

The last two days of August there is a 2 day Erlang course in Amsterdam. One of the most incredible things, is that there is a low cost offer sponsored by Spil games that reduces the price to 55€ for both days; talk about a steal!!

First things first: why should you follow a camp on Erlang?

People who know me in person know that I am an avid fan of Erlang, even though I have only done some very small experiments with it.

Even if you are not planning on developing something in Erlang, you should at least try to grasp the basic concepts!!

You want to know why? Here is why:

IDDDtour 2013 Belgium - an immersive experience

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: what & how?

Implementing Domain-Driven Design is a book written by Vaughn Vernon, and you can consider it a practical guide to the blue book - a lot of people consider the blue book to be used as a reference, but it takes some persistence to read it -. Vaughn tried to solve exactly that problem with his book...

"implementing domain driven design" by @vaughnvernon has arrived #YesYesYes #DDD #IDDD twitter.com/ToJans/status/…
— Tom Janssens (@ToJans) 13 februari 2013

A little while ago, Vaughn Vernon was tweeting about how had given a free course about his book "Implementing domain driven design" while visiting Bogota, Columbia. This course was given for free to help start-ups there.

My free one-day #IDDD Tutorial will be held in #Bogota #Colombia from 8:30am-6pm Monday Oct 8 at @hubbog Calle 98 # 18-71 Second Floor.
— Vaughn Vernon (@VaughnVernon) 5 oktober 2012

In the next few hours after this tweet, an idea emerged on twitter about a concept called the IDDDtour, where Vaughn would be teaching his book to larger classes and doing a tour through Europe, but at a fraction of the cost. As I am somebody who is more of a head first kind of guy, I decided to take ownership and figure out a way to make this a real thing...

Freedom: Learning stuff, doing consulting, aka the fun - and money balance

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

As I was wide awake at 5am this morning, and it was the end of the month, I decided to do some invoicing (while the Mrs. & kids are still asleep ;) ).

Because I had some time left, I decided to take a look at my stats... This invoice app was built about 10 years ago in MsAccess in a few days, and has not really changed a lot since then (except for some adjustments to allow certain billing specific extents; things like non-EU or VAT-exclusive stuff, as well as some automated payment reminder letters).

Anyway, that is not the subject of this post, but as I was browsing some of my available graphs - it has been a few months since I did that - , I decided to write a small blog post about my findings.

I will start of with what most of you will probably consider quite a controversial thing; I will just post a *slightly censored* graph of my invoices cumul over my years as a company owner. ..

LOL, that looks odd...

Fixing corrupt downloads with your ISP

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

About 3 days ago my internet connection with telenet started being really slow, and gave me corrupted downloads if files were larger then a few megabytes.

Opinion: TDD and startups - you are all wrong (or right)

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction There has been a lot of buzz lately about a post of Uncle Bob Martin, who claims that skipping Test-driven design is the worst mistake you can make when in a startup.

An open letter to Mr. Murphy

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Mr. Murphy, Pssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtt !!!! ... That was exactly the sound I was hearing when I got up early this Saturday morning (6.

Saturday night 30 min brain dump - Luck

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Sometimes you get lucky, and find a way where you can truely do the things you like in work... But why does luck always seem to be distributed unevenly, and does it always land with the same people.

Simplified Feature Branching - Source control done right

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As one does typically develop features in parallel, and some features can not be released while others can, a lot of software teams seem to have problems with their source control.

How your personality type affects your development

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction During one of my more recent interviews I got an assesment from two different persons. While I still have no idea about the definitive outcome, the different types of questions they both asked triggered me to think about what kind of personality type they would be, so I started wondering how personality types are related to development.

Fallacies of the tech recruitment process

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note: I would like to thank @gbarrs for reviewing my blog post almost instantly, and also the offer of @GraemeF, @MarkRendle, @swaggerdmangene and @moldyseaswimmer to be a reviewer.

Continuous thinking: Essay: Ease and simplicity in software architecture

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.” - Tom Peters As I was tinkering around with Erlang/OTP and some other stuff, I suddenly experienced yet another "

Trading the Elliott Wave - Silver 24/10/2012

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

s I think we are currently in wave 3 on several levels and we have some MACD/RSI divergence on the 4h-chart, I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and bought a few XAG/USD spot long sprinters with a leverage of about 80.

Paycento Web Summit 2012 - Day two: Aaaaargh matie

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This is a follow-up post to the post from yesterday. While the first day was really nice, the second day was completely different.

Paycento Web Summit 2012 - Day one: Is gra liom Eire

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction When Geert from Paycento asked me to join him and Pieter to Ireland for THE start-up convention in Ireland named Web Summit, I immediately agreed to join them for the following reasons:

Erlang 101: an attempt to implement CQRS

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As you might have noticed inone of my previous posts, I am currently focussing on Erlang, because I assume that this platform might be the most efficient way to handle umphteen connections over the web for now (but that is the subject for another post).

Trading the Elliott Wave - Silver 26/09/2012

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

No Elliott analysis yet, since I am a bit short on time, hence my quick and dirty analysis based on divergence.

Getting started with Erlang and Nitrogen on Windows (in a single tweet)

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

All things are difficult before they are easy - Thomas Fuller After spending quite some time trying to get an erlang/nitrogen instance running in windows, I finally managed to do it, and it turns out to be really simple once you know how to do it.

Live Blogging: getting started with Erlang and Nitrogen

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note This is an experiment where I try "live blogging": I blog as I get along further in the process... Feel free to comment/tweet during the process.

Tweet: My opinion on new theoretic development approaches

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Every theoretic development approach is a "Pseudo-Illuminate Legacy Enhancement of Subordinate Hierarchical Implementation Theories" #IMHO — Tom * suǝssuɐſ (@ToJans) September 12, 2012

De voedselzandloper: zin en onzin

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introductie De voedselzandloper is vandaag een paar keer in het nieuws vermeld, als zijnde een onconventioneel, en zelfs gevaarlijk dieet/voedingspatroon. In deze blog post probeer ik uit te leggen wat mijn persoonlijke ervaringen zijn op dit gebied; ik heb namelijk een jaar geleden een gelijkaardig (doch niet echt identiek) voedingsplan gevolgd.

Trading the Elliott Wave - Silver 05/09/2012

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This is a follow-up for an attempt to read the current trend in Silver, using mostly Elliott waves, Fibonacci retracements and RSI/MACD divergence.

Trading the Elliot Wave - Silver 28/8/2012

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This is my first attempt to read the current trend in Silver, using mostly Elliot waves, Fibonacci retracements and RSI/MACD divergence.

Project #Startup10: Working title - BIG

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

note: The source for this project is on Github; the following text is a copy of the file Readme.md. Project #Startup10 - Startup #3 : Project Big

Epilogue: One night in Paris - #CQRS, beers and life in general

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Ce soir #cqrsbeer chez Justine avec @abdullin @thinkb4coding @ToJans groups.google.com/forum/?fromgro… #cqrs — ALT.Net FR (@altnetfr) July 12, 2012 Introduction When I told people I was going to drive to Paris (350KM, a 3 hour drive, traffic jams not included) to have a discussion with a few persons I know from the internet, most of my friends were questioning my sanity.

Project #Startup10: Lessons learned with Blommekes.be

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note: this is a post from a blog post series about starting up 10 businesses in a year. #1: https://Blommekes.Be - koopt een blommeke voor u vrouw en het zal wa beter gaan Introduction The biggest problem in getting started with startups, is finding your inspiration, and deriving a business plan; in this post I will describe how blommekes.

From the trenches - improving scalability in .Net for Paycento

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As most of you might know, I am currently in the process of improving the scalability of the Paycento backend.

Y U build your own build server for Paycento

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As you might now I started working quite recently for the startup Paycento. One of the things I am currently doing is setting up a system that allows us to do continuous integration and deployment everywhere and anywhere.

It is official: on the second of May I will join the start-up Paycento

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Finally !! It has been a while since I blogged about my project #startup10, and there has been a reason for that.

Project YakShayQRS : another CQRS evolution

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction TL;DR: I managed to minimize the CQRS overhead even further. Over the years, I have been trying to minimize CQRS in several iterations, even releasing a framework and a lib in doing so.

Project #Startup10: You pay peanuts, you get the monkeys

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note: this is a post from a blog post series about starting up 10 businesses in a year. Introduction I love appharbour, in fact, I have 8 apps running over there at this moment.

Project #Startup10 : Learning to build your own business

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note: this is the first post in the series "Project #Startup10" : a blog post series about starting up 10 businesses in a single year.

HAxxors: Use SQL Server as a NOSql DB

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction I was in an environment where I only had SQL Server available, but I really wanted a key-value store, so what did I do:

Presentation: CQRS 101 - All your BASE belong to us - on march 6th for visug.be

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I am presenting for Visug on the 6th of march; it is a session about CQRS; here is the abstract:

The Seven Habits of Possibly Spectacularly Successful Executives

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Over at a private LinkedIn newsgroup for ENTP personality types, somebody posted a link to "The Seven Habits of Spectacularly unsuccessful Executives"

CQRS for the lazy -ss

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction In one of my numerous attempts to create a neat approach to CQRS, this is yet another attempt to remove all the protocol that CQRS requires.

2010 - 2011: A retrospective

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

One of my main motivators, my youngest son Matisse #PrideAndJoy Introduction I like the concept of retrospectives; it makes you self-reflect and think about the paths you followed and want to follow in the future.

Open brief aan Belgische ondernemers: Stappen naar een beter Belgie

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

We zitten in de problemen in ons landje; hoe zou U als ondernemer het probleem aanpakken ? #BeterBelgie Het geld is op, de mensen komen op straat, er is schrik voor de economische malaise en verdere implicaties er van, .

#Startup: How #NancyFx, #SimpleData and #Scritchy provided me 16K Euro profit in the first month

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction It was hard keeping this a secret, but I finally can tell you now: I managed to build my very first relatively successful web app.

Continuous thinking: Essay: TL;DR - functional programming = SQL SELECT statement

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction I am currently in the process of studying F# - a functional programming language -. Since I am a big fan of meta-cognition, I am trying to find out how the mindset of the functional programming paradigm differs from that of a C# one (i.

Continuous thinking: CQRS explained to a 10-year old

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction The concept behind CQRS is neat: detach your domain implementation completely from your representation requirements. I even wrote a framework for it as a learning tool, so somebody without any prior experience should be able to boot a CQRS app in a few minutes.

Continuous thinking: Essay: the duality of knowledge

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction. Everybody loves experts, at least I know I do! I love being able to toss almost every single question or problem to one or more experts in order to gain new insights and understandings.

Pragmatic CQRS: Verifying username uniqueness when registering a new user

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Most people who get started with CQRS have issues with this classical example: "how do we verify username uniqueness when a new user registers ?

Essay : Extending BDD stories ; the "Given I did" clause - including flow in user stories

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction In this essay I am going to reflect my personal ideas and opinions on the DSL syntax used for BDD, and I will propose a new concept for the common BDD language.

Quick tip: How to do TDD/BDD and debug unit tests with Visual Studio Express editions

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This article will show you how you can do TDD/BDD with Visual Studio Express editions. While most people say it is not possible, it is actually pretty easy.

Scritchy: CQRS without plumbing - a preview

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction CQRS is one of my architectural pet peeves, as you might have noticedfrom the numerous amount of blog posts I made on this subject.

Continuous thinking: How your MBTI type can help you

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction I just finished commenting someone's opinion on the MBTI personality type in a linkedin status update. As you might have read in my previous post regarding "

Continuous thinking: Essay: The secret sauce of great leadership - IMO

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction What MBTI personality type are are you ? If you do not know, I would suggest you find it out (I did it here, it only takes a few minutes).

Continuous thinking: why a 4GL should be avoided to start a new app

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As an avid member of the DDD/CQRS discussion group, somebody asked me what I meant with the following sentence:

Continuous thinking: Nerdbeers - Providing business value by issue tracking

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Note: this post is part of a series; you can find the first post here. Introduction Well, another 14 days passed by for the NerdBeers project, and a lot has happened:

Continuous thinking: Nerdbeers continued - We all win !!

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Note: this post is the successor tothe previous post on NerdBeers; if you have not read it yet, you might want to browse through that one first in order to have some context for this one.

Continuous thinking: just ship it - the story of NerdBeers

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Note This is the first in a series of posts : Continuous thinking: just ship it - the story of NerdBeers (this post) Continuous thinking: Nerdbeers continued - We all win !

Rant: Ik verdien niet genoeg/Toplonen zijn onverantwoord

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Inleiding Naar aanleiding van een thread op een populair Nederlands forum over zin en onzin van verloning, heb ik onlangs een relatief uitgebreid antwoord gepost.

Continuous thinking: Essential business books shortlist: 3 business books everyone should have read

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction I like to read books, lots of them. Some I read only once (very fast, usually in a few hours, to get the main picture), and the good ones I read over and over again, or at a slower pace.

Continuous thinking: The future of software

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction In this small article I am going to ventilate my recent thoughts on the evolutions and the future of software (both platform and development methodology).

Motivating people

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Testing how far you can go with removing CQRS infrastructure

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This is an example of something that would be easily converted to CQRS, but without the overhead:

SoWhat.cs - An example of a possible .Net web framework looking like Sinatra

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

My #CQRS cookbook

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Here is my personal take on how I interpret all things CQRS... Commercial impact: why use CQRS ? CQRS enforces you to apply strict boundaries to your app in a consistent way.

Waarom NVA deze match verloren heeft - een handanalyse

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introductie Gezien de huidige situatie in ons Belgenlandje vroeg ik me af wat nu het verdere verloop zal zijn van onze politieke impasse.

Winning the game with CQRS/event sourcing and BDD

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Yes !! I did it !!! I have been making a few attempts to combine BDD with CQRS/event sourcing, since they seem to make a perfect fit.

Beating the odds - development of a leak finder app for multitable SitNGo Poker

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction I have been playing poker for quite some time, most of the time just for fun and a few eurocents.

Getting started quickly with BDD in .Net

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This article will give you a brief introduction on how to get started with BDD (Behaviour driven development). It is my second attempt for such an article.

Building an MVVM framework for both .Net and .Net CF

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As you might allready know, I am maintaining a .Net CF application for one of my customers. Unfortunately, the design of the app is a total disaster, and maintaining it is actually a living hell.

Override interface mappings and creata a generic entity version filter

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction For one of my customers I needed to have some kind of versioning for a whole bunch of entities on my database.

Major update for MvcExtensions

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a while, but I finally managed to push a major upgrade to MvcExtensions; this is the change list:

Var keyword is for JavaScript - about using the var keyword & other coding guidelines

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Today I was reading an article on Codeproject, and I was really astounded by the way some people rate articles and give comments.

Screencast: Build an Asp.net MVC application quickly using MVCExtensions

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction This is my first screencast for my MVCExtensions project, it shows you how to get started and build a simple tasklist.

The advantage of using BDD over TDD

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction After reading the latest post from @jeremydmiller I felt the urge to write a small article about the BDD part since there might be missing a vital part here about BDD.

Build asp.net MVC applications FAST with MVCExtensions v0.4

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Today I finished v0.4 of my MVCExtensions library and I pushed the sourcecode to github. I also included a very simple tasklist, in order to show you on how to get started using this library.

Teaser on my upcoming mvcextensions project release

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there, I am going to give you a quick teaser on how to setup a full asp.net mvc application with database & all the rest using my soon-to-be-updated MVCExtensions library.

Einstein's theories explained in 5 minutes: (special) relativity

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction In the past I have noticed a lot of people talk about (special) relativity and other physics theories, but when you ask them a few questions, they do not seem to grasp the concept.

Tab/Akkoorden en songtekst van -Zottegem Blues- (Miele, 1974)

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Omdat ik dit wel een goed nummertje vind, en ik nergens de akkoorden en de songtekst vond, heb ik hem even zelf getabbed:

2009 retrospective: .Net technologies and lessons learned

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction In December 2008 I was doing my job as a freelance technical analyst for a big company. While it was a very interesting job in several ways, I felt that a burn-out was coming up.

Civilian's manifest against a ridiculous tax : we now need to pay extra taxes on usb-sticks/external hard discs because we MIGHT copy music/video on it

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction : "Oh my God" The Belgian government managed to do it again; starting from February we have to pay taxes on portable storage, because we MIGHT copy some music on it.

Howto+why using a prototype & bdd for a project estimate + personal rant

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction As you might or might not now, estimating the budget for a project can be very hard sometimes. In order to get started on a project we first need a real estimate of what the client will need, and the client should know what I am going to deliver to him/her.

The Quest for the perfect ASP.Net MVC code : v0.3

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

You can download the full source here using (msys)git: https://github.com/ToJans/MVCExtensions // The quest for perfect asp.net MVC code - v0.

The Quest for the perfect ASP.Net MVC code : Let the games begin

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Edit: Please note that the source has changed a lot lately, and that I now use a proper viewmodel instead of domain objects, so all hardlinked references to the domain objects & controllers in the MVC project have disappeared.

Rant : Your abomination is my clever hack

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

When I read the article from OdeToCode about the abuse of a programming language to create shortcuts, I felt the need to respond.

M-V-VM in Asp.Net MVC : removing dependencies between asp.Net views and controller actions

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Since the early days I have always been a fan of the ASP.net MVC framework, although I had one really big issue with it : the coupling of the controller actions in the view pages.

Aubergine (BDD for .Net) source code available on github

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there.... After a few weeks of working on Aubergine (BDD for .Net) I have decided to release the sourcecode for this tool out in the open.

Aubergine (BDD for .net) v0.07 : support for Given-I-did-clause

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there, V0.07 is here : Auberginev0.07.zip (28,61 kb) Changes: * Support for "Given I did" clause (more info inthis essay )

New essay on BDD - Given-I-did to support flow in user stories

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick link to my new essay on BDD: Essay : Extending BDD stories ; the "Given I did" clause - including flow in user stories

Aubergine (BDD for .net) v0.05 : text stories/html & custom output/cmdline parser

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Again a new release !! * The stories are now written in text-format; unrecognized beginning of lines are skipped/not processes; example data should begin with/be seperated by "

Aubergine (BDD for .net) v0.06 : support for parameter tables in given/when/then

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, we keep on going; now we support parameter tables for given/when/then, which are parsed as array members. I am now getting very close to full cucumber-like support !

Published a new Article on CodeProject : Getting started with BDD + new version of aubergine

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hi again, I just published a brand new article on CodeProject : Getting started with BDD. I also modified my Aubergine Framework a bit by adding a new feature : automatic case-insensitive DSL enum conversion.

Aubergine .Net BDD : support for named/typed parameters + RECURSIVE DSL + bugfix + no more assertions

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, I had some ideas this morning when I woke up, so I quickly implemented them. Changes (v0.02)

BDD with DSL: Aubergine, a ruby/cucumber like alternative for .NET - download available

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Update Again a lot has changed : look here Introduction In this article you can download the very first alpha version of Aubergine; a BDD /DSL framework for .

A new BDD framework in .Net : Aubergine

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

REMARK : An executable testrunner and some sample code is available Here : /posts/BDD-with-DSL-Aubergine-a-rubycucumber-like-alternative-for-NET-download-available.aspx REMARK : Skip to "Edit 2" to see the current syntax

w00t : Building a new app from the ground up : IOC, database and other stuff; a real framework

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is one of the articles in our series; the parts are: Methodology, technology & tools used Setting up the environment First specs and getting started IOC, database and other stuff; a real framework Happy reading !

w00t : Building a new app from the ground up : First specs and getting started

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

w00t : Building a new app from the ground up : methodology, technology & tools used

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

w00t : Building a new app from the ground up : setting up the environment

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Using google Calendar as a timetracker for your customers/ convert-import-export iCal /ics/google calendar to text/csv file

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Since I use a single shared Google calendar for every customer I have, so all the customers can see when I worked on their projects, I needed an easy way to import each calendar into my invoice program.

Jong voka kick-off 09/09/09 - een succes !

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Normaalgezien ben ik niet zo'n fan van netwerkevents en -clubs, en ik ben dan ook zelden aanwezig op dergelijke evenementen.

Why pick git over any other source control repository

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I found a very nice article that names some of the major advantages of Git over any other source control system; it certainly is worth a read :

To git or not to git - Source control done right / intro and quick tutorial

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction Source control has always been a really annoying issue for me, since it was either : Too complicated too manage Too restricted Too slow Too much a hassle to setup Badly integrated One or more of the above I have been working with Subversion/TortoiseSVN for a little while, but I was noticing that I really had to force myself into using the source control repository.

Bug fix : JQuery Uploadify / Internet explorer / Flash Undefined error

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I had the problem that the upload component did not work with a client of mine on different versions of IE .

Why choose ASP.NET MVC as a web development platform

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has recently released their final version of ASP.NET MVC. A few months ago I investigated some time in studying this new framework (while it was in beta 3).

ASP.NET MVC ImageHandler for thumbnails

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

As some of you might know, I am a really big fan of community-driven technologies. I also like to contribute myself in order to exchange new ideas and meet new people with common interests.

Migration from dasblog to BlogEngine.NET

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

After a few years, I changed my blogging engine.... now I 'll have to setup a few things again (i.

Core - Past, current & future ; exit freelance consultancy, enter project & business development

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Believe it or not : exit consultancy, enter projects & business development !! After doing some consultancy I have decided to stop doing freelance consultancy, and start focussing on doing projects and business development again.

Base Data Comfort and LG Viewty (KU990) : I am a follower

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

After having some bad experiences with my previous mobile provider -the biggest one on the Belgian market, you all know who- I decided to move over my mobile services to the same provider as my telephone and Internet : telenet; they have the advantage that one does not need to pay any extra membership fees for mobile services ; the cost was on a pay-per-use basis.

Using AOP / PostSharp to implement a function cache

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I just posted this comment on codeproject : I just discovered this a few hours ago, and I allready wrote a small but very helpfull attribute : a attribute to cache constant but timeconsuming function calls.

Video : Rally Pittoresque

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Last weekend I participated for the first time with Rally Pittoresque, an old timer rally. There were some pretty exclusive and nice cars there, a nice atmosphere, and it was great fun, so I posted a small video impression.

iPhone Keyboard on Windows Mobile 5/6 : download update available

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After a little chat with Tene from xda-developers.net, I suddenly realised that the performance problems could be easily solved my making the keyboard a little bit less tolerant to errors.

iPhone thumb keyboard for windows mobile 5 / 6 : download available

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have a new version of the intelligent keyboard for Windows Mobile 5/6 available. In this version, I use a smaller dictionary (15000 english words), and I have improved the performance as well.

Email : Job offer or SPAM; use google as a spam filter

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Today I recieved a strange mail in my inbox : Dear Job Seeker, Our International Corporation has a variety of high-paid positions available at the moment.

Alternatief voor Telenet digicorder opnemen, programmagids en flexview

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Verder met het digicorder-verhaal : Ik heb in plaats van een digicorder een HDD/DVD recorder aangeschaft met EPG en g-link: de Sony RDR HX725

iPhone thumb keyboard input simulation for windows mobile 5 / download available

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have been extending my former iPhone UI input simulations further, and migrated the intelligent thumb keyboard part to windows mobile 6 : Some examples of wrong keyboard input, while the expected result was still first match : SURROGATE (input text : XUERMFSRE ) TWEAKER (input text : YSRALDR ) ABSOLUTE BEGINNER (input text : ZHDIMYTR JRHOKKER) It does run on the emulator, but it seems to be a little slow.

Update : IPhone UI study : keyboard text input and gestures mock up - download here

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Since there was an unhandled exception reported by a user and I found the cause of the exception, I posted on update from my original article.

IPhone UI study : keyboard text input and gestures mock up - download here

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Updated !!! Somebody in stated in a comment he got an exception. I finally found the cause of it, and updated the application.

New version of DasBlog with extra and jforsythe macros installed

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

As you might or might not have noticed, last weekend I upgraded to newtelligence DasBlog 1.9.7174.0 nightly build, and modified my layout a little bit.

Safe method invoker in c#

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Today I was reading an article on codeproject by Mark Clifton about using a safe invoker for a method. While the idea was quite good, I think the implementation was a bit bloated, soI posted a comment with my own implementation.

Verdere info omtrent telenet digicorder etc..

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ik heb vandaag via een forum een verduidelijking gekregen van iemand die een ex-medewerker is voor de helpdesk van telenet.

Send smtp mail with an image included : a small but interesting code fragment

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Back over at codeproject an interesting article has been posted : how to send mail over smtp including an attached image.

Antwoord mbt Telenet Digibox van de vlaamse overheid

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Gezien ik niet zo'n fan ben van de Telenet DigiBox/DigiCorder heb ik enkele dagen geleden een mail verstuurd naar het kabinet van de minster van media : Geert Bourgois.

Technorati subscription :

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In order to increase my blog visibility I have subscribed myself to Technorati. In order to claim this blog I had to create an article with a link to my Technorati Profile .

New article on CodeProject : a minimalistic Telnet implementation

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Another fine article by me ;p Due to the positive responses from yesterday I decided to publish another article on codeproject.

Posted a new article on Codeproject : Who needs Linq anyway

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Today I finished a new post on Codeproject that shows how I implemented the DAL part of my current ASP.

Alternatief voor digibox/digicorder (Telenet digitale televisie)

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Na enkele keren bellen naar telenet ben ik het beu, en heb ik de volgende mail naar iemand van het kabinet van onze minister van media gestuurd; de inhoud van de mail ziet er als volgt uit :

CRM day 999999 - Buildprovider DAL - subsonic dal is not sufficent -

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It's been really busy since my last post, but I can allready tell you that I did not make the deadline.

CRM day 4 : Discovered a new approach

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had some things to do, so I could not really implement the main classes. Today, I am happy not to have started, since I have discovered Subsonic.

CRM day 2 : some general stuff

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have had some other things to do today, but I did find the time to read up on some of my rather basic & rusty knowledge (ASP.

CRM day 1 : Some simple ideas explained

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Today I will not actually program any stuff, but i will layout some basic stuff on paper this blog. First draft : I will start from the default object properties : DefaultObjectProps : id : unique identifier description : text description (for dropdownlists etc) created : date of creation created by : user modified : date of last modification modified by : user Then the default act_as_props DefaultActAsProps < DefaultObjectProps Parent (id, type) ActAsSecured < DefaultActAsProps OwnerUser : user OwnerGroup : group UserRights,GroupRights,AnonymousRights : CRUD bools implements : bool Allow Read (type,int id) bool Allow Write (type,int id) bool Allow Create (type,int id) bool Allow Update (type,int id) ActAsTree < DefaultActAsProps ActAsPageable < DefaultActAsProps ActAsSortable < DefaultActAsProps ActAsFilterable < DefaultActAsProps ActAsTaggable < DefaultActAsProps ActAsSchedule < DefaultActAsProps ActAsCommentable < DefaultActAsProps ActAsRule < DefaultActAsProps ActAsFileContainer < DefaultActAsProps An object instance can be represented in two ways PresentAsRow : Object row view PresentAsForm : Object Form view These rowpresenters will be used in a form.

Develop a CRM-app prototype in one (yes ONE) week

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

After developing several base implementations of a CRM package I have decided to re implement the full app from top to bottom.

Mesothelioma and lawyers

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Mesothelioma and lawyers ? Google has been providing a tool to show the current rates for adsense words. This is the top 10 of current pay-per-clicks :

HOWTO : (Dutch) onderhandelen over je loon

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

De volgende vraag werd op een forum gesteld : ... De nieuwe functie is echter een uurtje rijden en vereist dat ik goed bereikbaar ben.

HOWTO : avoid concurrency issues on a database

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

While some people will try to explain just exactly what kind of database locking types exist, I am a big fan of the more pragmatic approach : how to avoid concurrency issues.

HOWTO : buy a plasma/LCD Television

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

While buying a plasma or LCD television is actually a subjective thing, I have some personal tips that might come in handy : The minimal distance between the television and the viewer should be 4 times the screen size, so if you have a 42 '' screen which equals about a metre, your viewing distance should at least be 4 metres.

HOWTO : buy a speaker/surround system for your home cinema and music experiences

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Choosing a correct speakerset is actually a real quest, and in order to make that choice, I have taken the following points under consideration: - make sure you are hearing the speakers/reciever without equalizer/optimizations during a demonstration.

Opengl / c# source - Paul Bourke 3d Supershapes

Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

(Programmers only !!! ) While checking out some stuff on my PC I noticed some old sloppy code lying around : A quick and dirty hack to show how Paul Bourke's supershape works in 3d.

Current progress

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000

I am currently very very busy (15h+ a day) developing several projects, including Aestethics+ and Fact+. Since it's been a long time since I've posted any updates, I decided to make an effort today (although it's currently 1.

Aestethics+ / SE P910i

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000

I'm currently working on a new application for a plastic surgery clinic : "Aestethics+". More news about this when the specs/prototype is finished.

Best wishes !!!

Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Best wishes; a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone !!!!

New google service - predict your search requests

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

In it's ever-continuing quest of improving their search engine, google is trying out a new concept : Google auto-suggest. As you type in your search words, google tries to predict them.

Must-have open source/freeware application lineup

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Here at core, I use several freeware/open source tools and resources to make my life easier, and best of all, they are all free to use.

CROAM - objective analysis

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000

In my study for the 'perfect' project analysis tool, I developed a new analysis model , I'll call CROAM from now (Core Recursive Objective Analysis Model).

Cudi - Core universal database interface

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000

In dutch... english translation will follow In de voorbije maanden heeft Core voor u een nieuwe applicatie ontwikkeld : de Core Universal Database Interface, kortweg CUDI.

TestDriven.Net 1.0 out

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Found this on Peli's blog, and as an adaptee of the xp principles, and as a .NET programmer, I simply have the duty to mention this : TestDriven.

The user interface aspect

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Her is an excerpt from my former blog regarding user interface aspects... It's interesting to see how my opinion evolved from this kind of thinking to CROAM previous web logs can be found @ blogspot ---><8---------------------- A user-interface is one of the points that makes or breaks your program when users start to work with it.

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My parents bought their first computer - a TRS-80 Model III - when I was about 8 years old. I found a book about programming in basic, and it got me hooked for life.

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Tom Janssens Tom@corebvba.be +32 478 336 376 Core Nieuwegestraat 76 B9620 Zottegem BELGIUM VAT nr.

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Over a decade of consulting helped me to identify what I do best: Strategic consultancy: I convert your challenge - i.