Posts with tag “opinion”

Where my previous articles were focussed on the notes I took of the talks, this article is a mix of random notes and observations I made throughout the conference.

About a week has past since devopsdays Amsterdam. Time to write down some of my thoughts.

For years web development was quite predictable. The resolution of the average screen slowly but steadily increased, bandwidth became less of an issue and everything was good. Then smartphones became mainstream. Suddenly we have to make sure our websites are also accessible on small screens. And bandwidth may also be limited to a few kilobytes per second. In other words: new challenges. But how are we responding to them?

Recently I read some articles about web designers. This got me thinking about the qualities I think you need to be a good designer and about the different ways a design can be made.

Today I read two articles about the usefulness of unit testing. Here are my thoughts.

A couple of years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote “The Joel Test”. Let’s see how Zest Software scores…

After spending most of the afternoon on an airport it finally hit me: there’s more than meets the eye to the whole process of boarding a plane.