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Re: Pre-sollicitatie mijmering

Bram De Moor — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:10:08 -0000

Blij dat er veel mensen zo over denken. Te veel overhellen naar één kant is nooit goed. Als ik volgend jaar ga solliciteren ga ik proberen om mij niet te laten vangen... Een interessante en leuke job die fatsoenlijk verdient zal wel haalbaar zijn, mits wat zoekwerk.

Re: Pre-sollicitatie mijmering

Bram De Moor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:37:26 -0000

@Claudio: Aan de foto's op jullie blog te zien lijkt het daar inderdaad wel plezant!

Re: Google Chrome: het eerste web OS?

Bram De Moor — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:26:21 -0000

Die exploits zijn wel minder... Maar potentieel zit er wel in volgens mij. Die handige manier van favorieten tonen, de cleane layout, de snelheid waarmee pagina's laden en de ingebouwde zoekfunctie zijn echt prachtig. Ik ga ook nog bij Firefox blijven.

Re: Argumenten voor een WebOS

Bram De Moor — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:44:44 -0000

Ik had nog nooit van Ubiquity gehoord, maar na het bekijken van het filmpje lijkt het mij duidelijk dat dit de toekomst is... De klassieke filosofie van 'laat al het lastige, repetitieve werk door een computer doen, die zijn daar immers voor ontworpen' maakt ons het leven weeral een pak gemakkelijker. Toch eens benieuwd wat dat WebOS gaat geven, het klinkt natuurlijk goed maar het is naar mijn mening allemaal nog vrij abstract.

Re: 9/11: bedenking

Bram De Moor — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:32:20 -0000

Als ik het mij goed herinner, zat ik toen in de les aardrijkskunde op het GIB, en de leerkracht vertelde ons het nieuws. Ik weet nog dat iedereen er door was aangegrepen, ook al was het zo ver weg. Maar de lessenrooster is onverbiddelijk, pas 's avonds thuis wist ik echt wat er gebeurd was. Later heeft men in het GIB ook een minuut stilte gehouden.
Enkele dagen geleden op tv nog een aangrijpende documentaire gezien, over de mensen die gevangen zaten in de torens en de brandweermannen. United 93 is ook echt een aanrader.
Veel plezier in de VS trouwens!

Re: ICT Academy

Bram De Moor — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:54:47 -0000

...of kies voor bachelor toegepaste informatica. Wij krijgen ook redelijk wat bagage en achtergrondkennis mee (zeker in de specialisatie 'Software Management' die ik volg).

Re: Guard the open nature of the Internet

Bram De Moor — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:12:01 -0000

Zeer interessante zaken om over na te denken. Lees ook dit eens:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs...
De auteur maakt daar een punt over hoe google te veel internetservices naar zich toetrekt.

Re: Unit Tests And Silverlight

Bram De Moor — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:26:05 -0000

I'm really looking forward to using that! I'm becoming a little fed up with the way we run the Silverlight tests at the moment :)

Re: Testing Agatha’s Caching Functionality With QuickNet

Bram De Moor — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:42:34 -0000

Although I do not understand everything, I think I get the basic idea, and I can really see the potential. It seems like writing unit tests will be less repetitive, and the coverage will be higher... I'm looking forward to using it!

Re: Keep Your Eyes On The Road

Bram De Moor — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:43:30 -0000

Hmmm, some good points. I know of a company that has placed high stakes on SL for its product strategy... ;)

As for the "ramblings of a drunk": it's a bit harsh, but I'm with Davy on this one. I really like developing in silverlight, but it does have its downsides. Some of this issues are pointed out in the post, and then there's Justins rather vague and confusing comment. "We all KNEW this stuff years ago", well... Congratulations! You really convinced me with those razor-sharp arguments :)

Anyway, I'm really curious how everything will look in a couple of years. We will be working with technologies that don't exist yet. Silverlight 8 or HTML 7... It's important to keep the "fanboy and hater" stuff out and to constantly evaluate all alternatives.

Finally: I think most silverlight-based personal homepages tend to be very good... As examples of how to make a slow loading and user-unfriendly website, that is.

Re: Evolving Reading Interests, Part Two

Bram De Moor — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:48:53 -0000

They all look like great books... I wish I could just connect myself to my PC with an USB cable and transfer all that knowledge. :)
Well, since that's not an option, I'll have to put myself to work and do some reading. Thanks for the inspiration!

Re: Wanna Improve Your Life? Then DO Something About It!

Bram De Moor — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:16:19 -0000

Inspiring post. It's all about making the choice that's right for you and then going for it, instead of just talking about it.

Additional advice: The plan "I'm going to work a few years, and then I'm going to study X in college" is almost always a fail... (not something I experienced first hand, but I know some who have). You get to used to the money, and after a while, it's really hard to take a step back.

Re: Check Out PragPub, An Excellent Free Magazine

Bram De Moor — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:16:15 -0000

What a coincidence... I also discovered this a few days ago (through "the morning brew" if I remember correctly). Great content!

Re: Independence Day

Bram De Moor — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:28:49 -0000

Congrats! It's never easy to make a decision like that, but in my very humble opinion, it seems like the right thing for you to do.

Just wondering, will there be any blog posts about the non-technical side of your new occupation? I'm sure those would be pretty interesting. :)

Re: Calling All Belgian Developers

Bram De Moor — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:04:57 -0000

Ok, count me in!

Re: Highly Recommended Book: The Passionate Programmer

Bram De Moor — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:56:19 -0000

I finished that book a few weeks ago and I really liked it.

I just started reading "The 4-Hour-Body" by Timothy Ferriss, and all of a sudden there's a chapter where that same Chad Fowler is talking about how he lost 70 pounds of weight. It's a really, really small world when you think about it :)

Re: You Might Want To Start Taking JavaScript Seriously

Bram De Moor — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:28:28 -0000

This is very true!

Davy makes a good point in his post. Recently I really started to enjoy the power of JQuery. When used wisely, this is obviously the future. But we always have to be careful to take the right path;

A while ago, I was attending a certain technical event where one of the speakers opened his 'codebase' (read: one 1000 LOC+ giant pile of unmaintainable dirt .js file full of bugs). A shiver went down my spine, but no one in the room flinched. Because the result looked cool on the screen, right?

That's exactly what I'm afraid of: that the fanciness will make people forget about all the best practices and great tools we have, and enforce a 'just hack something together and FTP it to the internetz' mentality...

Also, the old saying about hammers and nails applies: JS is just one of the tools in your toolbox, don't overdo it!

Re: http://bramdemoor.tumblr.com/post/6941291567

Bram De Moor — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:55:54 -0000

This is just a simple test for disqus comments.

Re: Keeping Things Interesting (Or: Avoiding .NET At Home)

Bram De Moor — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:44:52 -0000

Knockout.JS FTW! We recently used that library in one of our projects, and I look forward to using it again. Saved us many lines of boilerplate code...

I agree with the post in general. It's often a real eye-opener to work with other technologies. But I still play around with .NET at home sometimes. I'm still young and naive ;)

Re: http://bramdemoor.tumblr.com/post/6941291567

Bram De Moor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:37:13 -0000

This was a test post, so here is the test comment....

Re: Maintaining Bad Code Can Be A Great Experience

Bram De Moor — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:26:21 -0000

What works best for me is to do maintenance work for 1 or 2 days a week, and do 'new' development on the other days. This makes the maintenance work more bearable. It keeps you motivated. And if you've been working on the brand new super-codebase for a while, it's always great to get a reality check or motivation boost by working with crap code.
In any case, the trick with maintenance work is indeed to find a way to make it work, to slowly improve the codebase and to learn. Just grinding it out is always a bad idea.

Re: The Worst Code I Ever Wrote, And Why I’m Still Happy About It

Bram De Moor — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:27:03 -0000

I think I still have the code of my first large VB program around somewhere. I was grinding out the most horrible if-statements, while my accomplice Dries was copy-pasting large chunks of code until the thing worked.
When we were done, I thought "hmmmm... There must be a better way...". I imagined loops and arrays in my mind, even though I didn't know things like that existed. But it inspired me to learn...
The program itself was some kind of electronic switchboard application, with its entire codebase in one file called Form1.vb. I was 14 years old back then :)

Re: And… That’s All Folks

Bram De Moor — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:21:44 -0000

Damn :( This is by far one of my favorite blogs, usually the first one I read when I check my rss reader. This is also one of the few blogs that I sometimes comment on, and it even inspired me to start my own blog. But I understand how much time and effort it often takes to continuously write good posts. If it feels like a chore, it's not worth your time anymore.

Through the years, I found that, next to the solid technical content, the critical opinions and rants were what really made this blog stand out. You formulated some strong opinions which many other bloggers wouldn't dare to voice. That's an achievement in its own right :)

Finally, wouldn't it be okay to just blog more passively? Just leave the content online and do a post every once in a while, when you feel like it. If I remember correctly, either Atwood or Spolsky started to do exactly the same thing a while ago. Anyway, I'm certain that in a couple of months, some of your opinions would have to find a way out. And you can't fit everything into 140 characters...