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  • Time to say goodbye

    In the past eight years at Info Support, I've said goodbye lots of times, to lots of different customers. Some of my work consisted of real consultancy: visiting a customer for a day or two, to advise them on dealing with a specific problem. Other...

  • Christmas Algorithms

    Christmas as an algorithmic optimization problem...

  • Plywood, duct tape and a couple of total wingnuts

    (Yeah, I'm a bit late -- the contest was over two weeks ago and I'm just now posting about it..) Most of our customers know Info Support as a company that specializes in administrative applications, mostly web-based. Little do they know that when the...

  • I want coroutines!

    The concept of coroutines , typically attributed to Donald Knuth , has existed for decades so why do so few mainstream programming languages properly implement it? Since the concept is not as well-known as it should be, let me start by refreshing your...

  • Virus problem leads to kernel patch (the virus now works)

    Every now and then, a story comes along which reminds me why I love the Linux/open-source world so much. Today's gem: There's a new proof-of-concept virus out (wel, "out" is not really the right word -- unless you're a pro virus researcher you'll probably...

  • Everybody loves Eric Raymond

    Well, Wouter , if weird comic strips for Linux users are your thing, then check this out..
    Published 31-01-2006 9:25 by Anonymous

  • GPL3 Draft 1 posted

    The Free Software Foundation has just posted the first draft of their proposal for a version 3 of the GNU General Public License , the most popular Open Source license and the one that started the "copyleft" movement (where software is distributed freely...
    Published 17-01-2006 8:55 by Anonymous

  • It had to happen eventually..

    India is expected to face a shortfall of 500,000 IT workers by 2010 , according to a McKinsey report. Hmm, maybe they can outsource some of their work to the US and Western Europe? :-) Then again, 500,000 people is several percent of the entire population...

  • A small victory in the fight against "patent ambushes"

    It's a small step , but a step in the right direction: European Commissioner for Competition, former member of the Dutch parliament Neelie Kroes , has apparently ordered the members of an influential standards body, ETSI , to make sure that its standards...

  • Versant drops plans for JDO2; says POJO is the way to go

    Versant , producers of one of the larger commercial JDO implementations, recently made an interesting announcement on their site. A while ago, they open-sourced their JDO implementation (Versant Open Access) and offered to take the project lead role for...

  • The HollandOpen conference

    Yesterday, I attended the Holland Open conference in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I could only attend the first day of the three-day conference. Nonetheless, a very interesting day! The highlight, for me, was the presentation of Eclipse WTP , the Web Tools...

  • Joel on Software

    There's a small number of blogs which I read religiously, and Joel Spolsky's Joel on Software is right at the top of that list. I certainly don't always agree with what he writes, but even when I don't he always makes me think, and I like being made to...

  • An article about Java 5 Generics

    When you are first introduced to Generics in Java 5, it seems pretty simple (especially if you already know C++ templates) and you wonder how the language ever made it through four previous versions without having this wonderful feature. Then you encounter...

  • Introducing myself

    Info Support is a heavily Microsoft-oriented company, with Java in a strong second place and still gaining momentum. Most people choose one of those tracks and specialize in it; we're a company with a strong focus on technology expertise, and I daresay...
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