Again I was struck by the tendency of many "experts" to use too much. They have a bag-of-tricks which for some reason needs to be used exhaustively. And the tools and frameworks do mention (sometimes) that you need to tailor them, but that doesn't stick. If it's there, it's there for a rea...

A psychological block keeps an artificial divide alive that never really existed in the first place.

And the block is kept in place by exactly those people that *think* they grok information technology. Myself included I fear.

It is such a nice, alluring thing, technology. Like religion in the old day...

A general complaint from people who focus on content instead of form is that "we could do it, if only we didn't have to waste all our energy on political issues".

True. Maybe.

Point is, political context is a part of any group of people larger than one. And not a part we should regret. On th...

Some application areas have quite strict quality requirements. The space and aviation industry is one, another in which I am currently involved is that of medical systems. The importance of quality for those systems has led to the establishment of several quality standards for the development of sof...

Over the past few months I've had several requests for an old project of mine, one that I did a long time ago on the University of Groningen: The Beehive Simulator.

In this article I share with you some considerations on resurrecting the project, a very interesting and, I think, very useful thing to ...