Blog by Rob Vens

or: the lack of cohesion-awareness.

In The Netherlands we have in our public transport trains the concept of silent compartments (quiet areas). Abundantly signalled in the compartments, the idea is that people are quiet in there, so that you can concentrate on work or just relax. There's often peopl...

PETER BELANGER/INTEL

Intel’s Bold Plan to Reinvent Computer Memory (and Keep It a Secret)

Wired, March 2017

We all read John von Neumann’s groundbreaking paper “First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC” back when it was p...

The main problem of the technological focus of computers is precisely that: that it is seen as a technology.

Because of that, technologically savvy people are attracted to it, and arising problems in all areas of life are discussed within a technological mindset.

Our current society is very much colou...

Prompted by an old discussion on Reddit (link expired), kicked off by the question: "Please explain OOP to me in the language of a five-year old", I found myself musing on the reasons computing seems to stay stuck in the Middle Ages.

It is not for lack of great minds o...

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Realising a consistent approach in your implementation projects is quite a challenge. One of the tools I have applied successfully is to introduce some kind of reference architecture or a reference model, or even better: both, in a reference implementation. This...