Last week I had the week off, so me and my girlfriend decided to spend one night somewhere special. When we were looking we saw some amazing places that you can stay in, from a lighthouse to a wine barrel. From a plane to a castle. We ended up sleeping in a castle: Kasteel Hattem. […]
A while ago I was faced with an interesting challenge: I was busy introducing dependency injection into an existing system. Almost every method call inside this system was a static call, so every class was hard coded to their dependencies. But, I might be going a little bit too fast here. What is dependency injection? […]
A true software engineer wants to be able to release at any time with any application. An unexpected problem can require a hotfix, so you want to be ready for it. When maintaining more then ten, twenty or maybe even thirty applications, this becomes a problem. What is a good strategy for keeping software releasable? […]
Last monday I decided to upgrade some of the systems that I maintain to their latest version. When doing so I saw that there was a new WordPress version released: 3.6. The release is codenamed Oscar, and it’s now rolled out on this website, and on odetocooking.com as well. As a user, you’ll notice no […]