Software Craft

In the Java community there’s a still this disagreement about whether to use statically checked exceptions versus their unchecked opponent. In this article I provide some facts about exceptions and my personal view on using them. Read more

One of Git’s interesting features is definitely the ability to sign tags. Using your GPG key-pair you can create a signed tag. Anyone with your public key can verify that you are the true creator of that tag. Read more

Yesterday, Saturday December 8th, the Global Day of Coderetreat 2012 was finally there. As facilitator of the event in Haarlem (The Netherlands) I was quite excited about this event, and think we it was great and much fun. Read more

The Sunday after the SCNA conference a code retreat was held at 3 locations in Chicago. I attended the one at the 8th Light office, hosted by Corey Haines. Read more

The Software Craftsmanship North America (SCNA) 2012 conference was held at November 9 and 10 on the top floor of the AON Center in Chicago, IL. Read more

On Saturday September 15, I attended a free workshop about continuous delivery by Robert Chatley, in Amsterdam. This workshop was organized by Ugly Duckling. Read more

Last night I read a tweet from Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic. His tweet read: Read more