Coding Exercise: Board games It turns out that modeling the rules of Chess and Checkers in code is a pretty good way to teach and learn some programming concepts. Inspired by Chapter 2.4 "Abstracting...
Implementing Code-Completion for VS Code with ANTLR How do you implement code-completion (aka "intellisense") for Visual Studio Code? and if you have an ANTLR grammar for your language: Can you take advantage it for...
Workflow/BPM Systems, 2020 How do you implement (in software) a long-running "business" process? Think of any long-running process that you want to implement. A process with multiple steps,...
Software Delivery Platforms 2019

We are starting a new "SaaS" project.

After working for 5 years on a project with a rusty "enterprise" deployment solution (Weblogic!, 🙄... not my fault),...
Why React?

The project team wants to move away from AngularJS (v1) for all new modules. What do we choose instead?

Angular 2+ (now at version 6) is the obvious first option.

This article...

Catching a Wave I think Google Wave could become a big thing. The idea of replacing emails with feeds of conversations is not a new one. I remember brainstorming about this with friends, and...
Career move Today is is my last day as an Oracle employee. "Fired? Lay offs?" No, I decided to leave. "What happened?" Nothing, really. I was working with nice people,...