I did a presentation about linked data/semantic web. Click below to progress or click here for full screen. MichaelTime person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012. westergaard.eu/ […]
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Agile Bad!
Agile development is a big ol’ turd which only serves two purposes: to keep academics busy and to promote useless people to agile coaches so they don’t accidentally break anything valuable. Agile seems alluring: don’t do any planning, split everything into sprints of 1-3 weeks, make sure the code is production ready at all times, […]
Angular and Spring Boot, part 2
I wrote a piece about base project setup to make Angular and Spring Boot play nice together. This piece builds upon that, but can also be read in isolation (except for the section where I make changes to the previous post. The previous post showed how to do basic project setup and to configure Angular […]
Plan to Fail
I used to work at a company, that was implementing a new strategy of “first time right.” If you plan to do everything right, there may be no margin for failure, and every time you get surprised by failure, you have to go into disaster recovery mode. […]
Angular, Spring Boot, Maven, and all that Jazz
Angular is the “new” hotness is web-development, and it is easy to see why: web-developers (lol) are idiots. Simultaneously, Spring Boot is the way to develop cloud-native enterprise-ready applications in a Java ecosystem. It just seems nobody on the internet has thought to bring these two great tastes together yet. Sure, there’s (as always) a […]
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What’s Wrong with Service Desks these Days
It’s not a question, it’s a statement: I’ll describe exactly what’s wrong with them and my solution, nay, the solution to the problems. This is not some thinly veiled racist protectionistic “the problem is really outsourcing” manifesto, but rather a description of what is wrong with most pieces of software for running service desks. Over the past […]