(Normally I tend not to write any personal posts here, but hey, why not?) It is the end of the year and time for new year’s resolutions. Luckily I had a great year and did most of the things I planned to do (the classics like losing weight, cleaning up the flat, changing my work […]

I am currently in the German countryside to see my family and old school friends. My brother’s internet connection is actually trained weasels carrying the things I type on 5.1/4” floppy disk to the next internet hub and I need to write everything in their beautiful but hard language. Therefore I am not answering emails, […]

Things that made me happy this morning (evening, afternoon? what do I know, jetlagged and confused): The Videos of Paris Web talks are now available – most of them in French, but two in English. In any case awesome content, check them out! Amazing “bang for your buck” conference, that one. Opera’s “Mother” Henny Swan […]

Paris Web – one of my favourite conferences last year – just released all the videos of the presentations. Most of the presentations are in French, but mine is in English: Download and watch the presentation on SlideShare In the talk I advocated re-using components and systems we already have to work faster, deliver better […]

We just had an interesting meeting here discussing plans of how to provide translations of our documentations in different languages. I am a big fan of documentation and have given several presentations talking about the why and how of good docs. In essence the “good code explains itself” talk is a big fat arrogant lie. […]