Yeah. I know. This is the umptieth article on this topic. But this one is mine, ok?

I’m busy with a redesign of the site. One of the things is that I want to be more flexible in redesigning the site so I started looking for boxes (with or without rounded corners) that were robust, flexible, […]

Just a quick post - we’re still looking for very skilled developers to join our teams in Amsterdam and Emmeloord. Look at our local jobs page for details. It’s a great team, we’ve got some very fun challenges to chew on in the coming time, and you really can do worse than working for eBay […]

In PHPDBUnit - Testing DB interaction with PHPUnit - Digital Sandwich, Mike Lively announces a port of Java’s DBUnit to PHP. I gave a short(ish) reply on the blog but after posting it I realized I wanted to expand on the topic a bit .
Let me start by quoting my reply on his […]

A colleague pointed out this article, reporting on Linus Torvalds giving a talk at some search engine shop about Git, “his” source code management system.
Always interested in something better than CVS/SVN, and a spoiled brat with the various distributed systems available under Smalltalk (like Monticello), I looked at Git back when the kernel folk […]

So, since re-joining the hordes of hackers-with-a-regular job earlier this year, I haven’t been able to do much with Smalltalk. Where I work, it’s PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, shell scripting, etcetera. Since summer, it has been almost exclusively Java for me so it is maybe a good time to share my experiences.
First, Smalltalk has […]

Well, with Sun’s Java JDK 6 it looks like there’s finally a light shining at the end of the long, dark, and statically typed tunnel (you know, that tunnel with Tunnel written on the wall). In JDK 6, JavaScript will be included–from my quick read as a sample engine for the new script API.
Why […]

At my new company, Java has been designated as “the” language. I won’t comment on this decision, and actually they’re reasonably relaxed about it (if you can show that one of the other existing main languages in the company - PHP, Perl, C - will work better, you’re probably free to move ahead), but still, […]

By way of the Scrum mailing list, Cambrian House is a start-up that looks like a promising way to do business. It is a bit like previous sites that tried to invoke the Net community to do work, but this one might actually turn out to be a good idea.
Basically, what you can do is […]

Tonight, I was discussing with some guys to re-license a package I wrote some time ago, JDBM. It’s an interesting little Java package, used by some other open source projects, and for some reason I slapped a home-made custom license on it.
I think I’m getting really old - I have been discussing open source licensing […]

In Test Driven Development - using MS Excel and VBA, Clarke Ching presents a hands-on workshop to explain TDD using nothing more than a spreadsheet and some simple-to-understand VisualBasic for Applications code.
If you have non-technical or semi-technical people that need convincing about the value(s) of TDD, this might just be what you need. I think […]