Every once in a while you encounter a challenging modelling problem in your domain. The kind of problem that needs a few iterations to become something simple and elegant.
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Yesterday Romeu Moura was our guest at DDDBE with an excellent session on complexity in software. His talk “Out of the Tarpit” is a dissection of the paper by Ben Mosely and Peter Marks, written in 2006.
Continue readingYesterday I presented my “Distributed Events” talk at Visug. I had many interesting questions during and after the talk and showed some attendees a few links. Since it might be interesting for other people too I decided to post them here.
Continue readingLast week I spoke at NCrafts, a very nice 2 day conference in Paris.
update The video is online on Vimeo, the slides can be downloaded here
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In the previous years, I spend most of my free time working in our house, not leaving much time for other things. Although I had a great time building up the home for me and my family, I’m happy that most of it is done now and I can enjoy the result of all the hard work. In 2015 I finally had some time for community work and sport. Let’s have a quick look at what happened…
BuildStuff is not your typical software conference. It has this special atmosphere, it’s hacker-friendly, topic tolerant & the only conference with a free party and charity poker tournament!
Continue readingWhether it’s learning a new programming language, a new source control system, setting up a build server or the newest JavaScript framework, you’ll find yourself unproductive more often than not in the early stage of this process.
Continue readingLast week, my friend @jefclaes reminded me I still didn’t wrote my “2014 Part 2” post.
So, what’s up for 2014?
Continue readingLast week @yreynhout, @jefclaes, @mathiasverraes, @tojans & I presented a series of short sessions on strategic design at DDDBE. While these strategic patterns are at least equally important than the tactical patterns, the feedback we received was often like “yeah, cool and all, but what does it mean in practice?”
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