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• Minimalist or Humane interfaces? Both ofcourse

  For some reason everybody has way more time on their hands to read blogs than I do, because whenever I feel like responding to a post from someone it turns out that it was written at least half a week ago and already has dozens of responses. Again here... Posted Dec 10 2005, 11:51 PM by jvdbos with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development

• Saving time with refactoring

  When I wrote about refactoring being free I mentioned only a typical situation where you have a (large) body of code and you want to modify it. This happens a lot, but refactoring is especially useful when you're enhancing small pieces of code that you... Posted Dec 09 2005, 11:45 AM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: Software Development

• Refactoring is free

  I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to give my perspective on some of the discussion surrounding the cost of refactoring I've been reading about in the past week, most notably some posts by Paul Gielens , starting with Refactoring is Not Free... Posted Dec 07 2005, 11:24 AM by jvdbos with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development

• TechEd Europe 2005: All about SOA (and a bit of Team System)

  For the past two days I've been visiting architecture sessions (ARCxxx) and a single one on Visual Studio 2005 Team System. After that I remembered why I don't like sessions that focus on tools and instead prefer to just work with them myself for a while... Posted Jul 06 2005, 10:33 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: Software Development, Services, TechEd

• A slightly modified Chain of Responsibility

  Recently I implemented a Chain of Responsibility in C# and decided to modify it a bit for my application, since the original pattern favours object hierarchies heavily and I wanted to use it in a flat context. With flat I mean that I have a bunch of handlers... Posted Jun 12 2005, 11:48 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: C#, Software Development

• Reflecting on plug-in systems

  After creating a plug-in architecture in .NET based on interfaces, attributes and reflection a while ago, I'm now doing something that looks like it will require a similar approach. This post will discuss some of the things I've learned from the first... Posted May 16 2005, 11:22 PM by jvdbos with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development

• Search APIs: SOAP or REST?

  I've been reading about the SOAP vs. REST-debate for years now and most of it seems quite pointless to me: there are clear cases where SOAP is useful and others where REST is preferable. In fact, I've had this experience recently when writing a tool that... Posted Mar 28 2005, 10:12 PM by jvdbos with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development, Services

• C is (still) everywhere

  Jon Galloway posted that he disagrees with one of the points in Joel Spolsky's Career Advice column , specifically this one: Learn C before graduating . Jon goes on to provide six arguments why you shouldn't learn C anymore if you're not familiar with... Posted Feb 16 2005, 02:08 PM by jvdbos with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development

• Next release: "Summer Edition!"

  After the release of a big project that contains lots of plug-ins, I've been thinking about a way to maintain everything in such a way that it won't consume all my time and at the same time will still be easy to deal with for my users. The entire system... Posted Feb 08 2005, 09:28 AM by jvdbos with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Software Development

• Nant-scripts as developer therapy

  It took me quite a while to get into writing Nant -scripts for my projects. One of the main reasons for me to denounce the concept of writing buildfiles at all was that I was all too happy to be rid of those terrible makefiles I had to put up with before... Posted Jan 17 2005, 08:39 AM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: Software Development