Five years and one day ago I wrote my first blogpost . Blogging has done more to and for me than I could ever imagine so this celebration is worth a little rant on a subject which has changed most over these years. Five years ago I was still with one foot in the Delphi world. Delphi was at the time where...

When developing software you are dealing with changes. Changes in what your creations have to do; changes in the way you create your software. The process of change sometimes seems to be a goal on itself. We are almost beaten to death by both the enormous amount of new tools and techniques to create...

At the start of a new year, whose name is in many a new product, it's a good moment for some small reflections before rushing on. My job over the years has been "with computers". To most people in my surroundings, including my wife, there is no big difference in setting up a network drive...

This may sound hilarious but gave me quite a start. My (Windows) server has automatic updates switched on. Once in a while it reboots, never a problem. Until last night. In the drive was still a (bootable) disk. After reboot it’s been prompting all night whether I wanted to install a 32-bit or the 64...

What is an architect ? There are many definitions around, varying from "an elitist in an ivory tower throwing down incomprehensible documents" to "a developer more equal than others". In a previous post I quite boldly stated that an architect always should be a coder and nearly everybody...

This has been said over and over again, but as long as it keeps happening it just has to be said again. A very common career path in IT "promotes" a coder over the years to a program manager with architect responsibilities. And being an architect they stop writing code themselves. The thing...

As a First answer: nothing at all. I've seen a number of demo's, seen people work with it, read about it and I like it. Quite a nice tool. My problem is that I cannot work with it myself. I have "Visual Studio Team system for workgroups" edition. Which includes many team server tools...

Most of us are pretty passionate about technology. We have no problem in losing a night of sleep on a tool to build stuff for our customers. But in the end we are only creating tools which helps them to run their affairs. In the end your customer does not care what methodology or coding language was...

Yesterday Jeffrey published his 500th post without even mentioning the milestone. Scott Sam was aware of his 150 th New and Notable . And today this is my 500th post. Some short words looking back and ahead. Over the posts and years a lot has happened. To me the most fascinating is that I'm no longer...

Please forgive me when this appears a little rude, but I just have to get this of my chest. I do answer every email question but recently I am bombarded with comments asking for help on some this or that. I know my blog has a lot of hints to solve many a small tidbit you just have to get solved to get...