Every developer has worked with them. Those old monolithic legacy systems. I’m not only speaking of old mainframe code written in COBOL or FORTRAN. These are getting fewer even while I’m writing this. No I’m speaking of this ‘old’ systems originating in the 1990s. Perhaps huge C++ Libraries, written by C or even worse by [...]
For over two years now, I’m a happy smartphone user. Having used different Palm PDAs more or less intensive since early 2002, I bought a Treo 650 in 2005 when my (now) wife and I got a new mobile phone contract. I loved the form factor, the keyboard and the fact, that I had to [...]
It has been a long time since I had the chance to write something here. I was rather busy in my personal life (getting married and shortly after that my grandmother and a good friend died within a few weeks…), so there wasn’t much time to be here. When I look back at my last [...]