And it will be good you can hope.... Continue reading

Some really good stuff on SOA done right! Udi Dahan wise words.... Service-Oriented API implementations. Continue reading

Almost started to giggle on the bus today. Here I was, commiting code to my local Git repository, pushing it to my local master instantly synced to Dropbox and than finally up to the Heroku production hosting. All while riding the bus to work ;) Life is good, and the iPhone's mobile hotspot is king! Ref: http://heroku.com | http://dropbox.com | http://git-scm.com | http://tumblr.intranation.com/post/766290743/using-dropbox-git-repository Posted with Blogsy Continue reading

Hate to use the mouse, so I Googled for the keyboard shortcuts for LeanKit’s Kanban tool. No clean hits though. Later on I found them under the “Configure Board Settings” / Preferences tab. BTW, They are disabled by default. Edit: Typo fixed Continue reading

Making .NET a Star Performer Continue reading

The other week I was asked a second time to hold a session for an IT consultant trainee program. Topic for the day was "the consultant role". Based on my experience as a consultant but also on the experience from my 18 month mission on spreading Betsson's approach on system development in their Philippine office, below are some of the topics covered. You are an ambassador. For yourself, for your company and for the industry It it a role, but who's play? Expectations: Better than others: The companies employees and preferably the one who pays the bill Better on what:... Continue reading

Sportsbook development, how hard can I be! Damn hard! Why? Continue reading

Task estimation made easy? In this movie I demo the basic functionality of my task estimation tool ESTI. The movie is the first in a series, where I will try to show how I think ESTI could be used to get things done (estimated). View it over at PragPros.com blog http://www.pragpros.com/2011/10/esti-story-and-task-handling-demo-movie.html or directly at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hd4sHAD8c4M This is actually the first YouTube movie upload for me. Many more to come. What feature is missing in ESTI? Let me know, please! Continue reading

Same dry-wall, same short screws, but now with additional glue. WTF! #fail! Continue reading

Pinoy carpenter at work again. Perhaps using "fixing"? And not super short screws in plaster-, gypsum-board Continue reading

Scenario (Based on a true story) You would like to fasten 4 legs to a bed with wooden frame. The legs are attached to a metal plate that is approx. 2 mm thick. Which method do actually work… even after 2 months of usage of the bed? Method 1: Nails? Quick, yes, but does not work if you actually use the bed. At least if you do not use “grabbers”. Nails will come out eventually. Method 2: Wood screws with a unthreaded shank below the head. Wood screw YES, but since the metal plate is so thin… the unthreaded part... Continue reading

Sweet dreams... Continue reading

Just love the new possibility to skip the mouse when searching in Google Search. I put together a small video showing how it works in Google Chromefore. Shortcuts used: CTRL-K to access search (Chrome) Enter to search ARROW UP / ARROW DOWN to navigate in search result ENTER to visit search result CTRL-LEFT ARROW to return to search result Works in: Google Chrome, Firefox | Does Not Work In (yet): IE8, IE9 not tested (really tried to get a useful link to IE8, but Microsoft URL’s sucks, jumps to IE9 everywhere) References: - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/keyboard-shortcuts-for-google-search.html Continue reading

Installed the latest version (iOS 4) last night, longing to try out the multitasking feature. But hell no! Not supported on my old 3G iPhone. Yet another reason to buy he latest one. Resources: iPhone: Which iOS 4 software features does my iPhone support? Continue reading

Hopefully you will really get a kick out of this book. At least I did! Let’s lead! -- http://amzn.to/btIbJD Continue reading

Finally! The latest shipment from Amazon arrived. Three packages on the same day, even if the orders where placed 1 month apart. Tribes - Seth Godin Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming - Seibel Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging and Outmarketing Your Competition - Guy Kawasaki Founders at Work : Stories of Startups' Early Days: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) - Jessica Livingston The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence at Work - Tom Peters Continue reading

Here we go again! I’m reading yet another two books from Pragmatic Programmers. They seem to deliver programming and agile books in my liking. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software Reviews will follow soon Continue reading

The last week I’ve been building this new site, ReAnswer.Net. How many times have you not goggled for the answer to a tech/job related problem, only to find the answer hidden deep down a discussion, or in a comment to a related post. ReAnswer.Net is about writing answers, not questions. Many times the questions is not very good, when we know the answer. Let’s act on this. With a bookmarklet you can quickly submit any found answer and clean out the question/answer and description. Please help me to build a great answer focused site, without banners and other distractions. Features... Continue reading

My Google Chrome profile got corrupted yesterday (???). I needed to reinstall my extensions and found this gem: One Number https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfkohgkpafhkpdcnfadadcibfboapggi One notification extension for all vital Google Apps. GMail Google Reader Google Wave Google Voice To bad I don’t have a Google Voice account… yet. Continue reading

Final round!? Even more books I brought to work. Quite a few titles from The Pragmatic Bookshelf it seems ;) Links goes to Amazon UK. Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together The Elements of Style The Google Story What Would Google Do? High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers Mastering Regular Expressions Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Ajax Design Patterns Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free: A Guide to Making Money on the Web WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach (Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach) Defensive Design for... Continue reading