I recently found myself in a discussion on whether or not exceptions could be used to control program flow in software (specifically in PHP applications). That triggered me to post a tweet: Exceptions should not be used to control expected application flow. Discuss….@skoop This triggered quite a bit of discussion, which gave me a lot…
I’ve been running this blog on Sculpin for quite a while now, and I’m quite happy with how that works. We’ve been in a process of migrating some of our websites off a standard VPS towards a setup with Docker, Gitlab CI and Rancher. I’ve now migrated some websites, which is relatively easy, but most…
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post like this, but given the focus of the upcoming events I thought I’d give a small overview of my upcoming speaker appearances. Why? For 2017 I want to once again focus a bit more on building bridges. I’ve done this a couple of years ago but…
Can you write me a simple script that fetches some information from an RSS feed and displays the titles? Like, just write me that script in a couple of minutes. I don’t care about tests, quality, etc. Just get me the information, quickly. I’m curious how you would handle this request. A couple of years…
I know I’m late with this, but I’ve only recently really been discovering the podcast as a way of keeping informed. My daily commute is quite long because of traffic jams and a good way to keep yourself occupied with something useful is to listen to podcasts. On one of my recent commutes I started…
Last year I already wrote about different initiatives in the period leading up to Christmas. In one of my talks this year, Level Up Your Team I’ve been discussing many ways of learning, and for this year I want to highlight one of the initiatives that I participated in last year, and again am trying…
I can’t remember where I actually first read about this little developer’s lifehack, but I’ve been using this for a while now and really like it: Not using the -m option anymore when commiting with git. What I used to do… I use Git nearly exclusively on the command-line. My main reason for that is…
I recently finished a book that has been in my possession for quite some time already, The Serendipity Machine by Sebastian Olma. Subtitled A Disruptive Business Model for Society 3.0 sounds very buzzword-y and startup-y, but despite the subtitle it was a very good book. I’ve been a big fan of the Seats2Meet concept for…
It’s just past 5AM as I start writing this. I’m sitting downstairs in the ZendCon hotel, with a view on an empty bar and brightly coloured gambling machines. Since I woke up at 3AM (don’t you love jetlag?) and today is the day I travel back home, I’ve been reflecting on the conference. I’ll be…
I got a private message on one of the Slack networks I’m on on August 2nd. Mike Bell invited me to write something for Geek Mental Help-week. As usual, I delayed to the last moment to write that, and the Geek Mental Help-week was last week. I’m publishing this now, a couple of days too…