Recently I read an article on TechCrunch titled: Technology can't replace the human touch by Ron Miller, and it made me think. Can technology, or to be more specific, intelligent…
When a team achieves something, be it big or small, it is nice to get recognition for it. However, this is not always the case. There are many situations in…
As developers, our job is finding solutions to problems. Finding a good solution to a problem that has not yet been solved will give the business a tremendous advantage over its…
Last year I was introduced to a new (for me) workshop format, called 'Event Storming'. It is a technique developed by Alberto Brandolini and is meant to quickly explore complex…
Like most of you, I invest quite some time reading about agile software development practices and how to create innovative solutions with a short time to market. My experience, although…
The cake pattern is an important pattern to do dependency injection in Scala. It is explained in various blog posts on the web, for example by Jason Arhart, by Mark Harrison and…
"Being a software developer is awesome. Look around you. Almost everything that is man-made today has software behind it." This is a quote from the book 'The Software Craftsman: Professionalism,…
ElasticSearch is a great Java based search solution. When I started researching it, I became very enthusiastic about it. The search capabilities that come out of the box, combined with…
Today I got back at the office after a two week holiday. This comic expresses how I felt for the first four hours. It got slightly better in the afternoon,…
Many OS X users know the productivity tool Alfred. Alfred is far more than a quick launcher that will let you operate your computer with the use of your keyboard. Recently…
