Last week, my Taiga partner in crime Erwin and I went on a road trip to Malmö Sweden to visit the Øredev 2009 conference. All I can say is that it was the best conference I ever attended. Fantastic sessions, crowd and atmosphere!
To summarize, some random observations:
JAVA vs. .NET: from the .NET prespective, I noticed [...]
Categories: General
Tagged: Oredev
Last week at the Øredev 2009 conference in Malmö, there was a closing panel with various big names in software development.
At one time during the discussion, Scott Hanselman brought up the issue that we (as in the people who attended the conference) might be out of touch with people like ‘The Chief Architect of [...]
Categories: General
Warning: this post doesn’t only contain the usual software dev stuff, but also some serious guitar-geekiness.
This morning, I was shocked when I found out how much the development of my pedalboard went through exactly the same stages as the way I’m building ASP.NET web applications. First let’s see where I’m coming from:
In the picture [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC, General
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Guitar
Today, I moved this blog from SubText to WordPress. All was going fine with SubText, but WordPress is so much more sophisticated these days, I couldn’t resist it .
Since the server is running IIS6 and not the usual LAMP stack, I was prepared for some struggling, but it was pretty easy.
I started [...]
Categories: General
Maybe I’m a bit of a masochist, but I enjoy a good flamewar at times. For that reason, I still have TheServerSide.com in my bookmarks to check out what our Java friends are bitching about. My favorite subjects are ‘the new web framework of the month’ and the occasional persistence framework rants. Today, I checked [...]
Categories: General
Tagged: Impedance mismatch, Software development
Last week, I started to do some serious Cuyahoga development again and I’m going to try a new development methodology: blog-driven-development. A few days of development brought up so many interesting things, so I decided that I might as well write about them (in fact, I already started it because this post was also triggered [...]
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Cuyahoga
Hi, my name is Martijn Boland. For a living, I develop software and try to help other people building better software. Together with Erwin Berends, I own a little software company in the Netherlands called Taiga. I’m also the lead developer of the Cuyahoga CMS project.
In this blog, I’m mainly going to write about the [...]
Categories: General