- 25 Jan 2014 » About Focus@will
Introduction for the Hacker News readers: focus@will has already triggered interesting comments in hacker news, see here. But none of the commenters seem to have a real experience with the service and what’s involved in it. So here is mine....
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- 17 Jun 2013 » How We Model In Angularjs
This post follows a blog post about some of AngularJS weaknesses, how to model being the main subject. There isn’t one idiomatic way to use a model in AngularJS and this lack of guidance was considered a problem. I think...
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- 12 May 2013 » More On The Pasting Service Thing
I thought a bit more about that pasting service, and there is much much more to it than I thought at first. Let’s dream a bit. Imagine a place where you’d find implementation solutions to particular problems you have. With...
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- 07 Apr 2013 » Software Is An Extension Of The Human Brain
Warning: I just re-read this post and realised that it is a bit … pretentious, maybe, as it tries to tell the world what to do. Anyway, you’ve been warned, and I still think I have a point, so I’ll...
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- 07 Apr 2013 » Software And Money
Software and money. Software must be also a revenue generator for users, not only a cost generator. At the moment, the closer the software is to the user, the more cost it generates. The user can also generate value for...
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- 18 Mar 2013 » Find The Problem First
In a precedent post, I was describing how being the user allows makers making good relevant software. This is actually possible because in that process users and makers will interact until they reach the actual problem they want to solve...
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- 18 Mar 2013 » Be The User
Making good software is difficult, but not for everybody. Some people, often small teams or lone developers, will create true gems which can be tenfold better than what a company on a large budget will release. I could give examples...
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- 15 Feb 2013 » Programatically Patching A Zip File
There is no good excuse to patch continuously the result of a build. If you have to patch a build more than once, this means you have to change your build somehow and take that patch into account in your...
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- 12 Feb 2013 » Creativity Is Solving Problems
The more I develop, the more I realise creativity is at the heart of a developer’s job. We had a discussion about creativity with my brother, he is a developer too by the way. I consider him as one of...
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- 04 Feb 2013 » Pasting Instead Of Depending
It happened several times that a library appealed to me just for a few handy methods. But depending on a library is an act of commitment. And it’s not a marriage-like commitment, this will be a one way commitment, your...
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- 03 Feb 2013 » Software Are Made By People
“Software are Made by People” is a category given to posts about how us, with all our shortcomings, can make good software. Software writing relies heavily on the human brain creativity. Where mathematics, Physics or Biology could be considered as...
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- 02 Feb 2013 » Opening Post
This is a meta post introducing the blog. As the title says, this blog will mainly be about making software. In making software I’m including all sort of activities, be it writing code, project management, open source, product design, tools...
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