Monthly Archives: March 2009

Android presentation

Posted on March 25, 2009 by peter

Tonight I presented the Android platform at Finalists‘ quarterly tech meeting in Rotterdam. Tomorrow I’ll present it again in Eindhoven. I think the presentation went fairly well and attending colleagues managed to get a glimpse of the possibilities of the … Continue reading →

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CouchDB meetup in Amsterdam

Posted on March 24, 2009 by peter

Tonight I went to the CouchDB meetup in Amsterdam (‘In De Wildeman’) to discuss the architecture I’m designing for upcoming VPRO projects (more on that in a following blogpost). We had a really nice discussion about mostly the ‘edges’ of … Continue reading →

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Unconventional architectures that might scale (I)

Posted on March 24, 2009 by peter

I’m experimenting with some unconventional architectural ideas (at least from a Java developers view) while designing a new architecture for Dutch broadcaster VPRO. In this series of blogposts I’ll try to explain some of the concepts; please feel free to … Continue reading →

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QCon 2009 – 3

Posted on March 13, 2009 by peter

QCon 2009 is no more. To bad, it was an really great conference. Today I mainly attended tracks aimed at how to be / become a good architect/teamlead and a really nice talk about the technical issue the twitter team … Continue reading →

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QCon 2009 – 2

Posted on March 12, 2009 by peter

I just returned from another great day of QCon. Today I focused on software architecture tracks. They where delightful. Things I’ve learned (or heard again but think are important to keep mentioning) today: BBC has plans very similar to what … Continue reading →

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QCon 2009 – 1

Posted on March 12, 2009 by peter

Two days ago I traveled to London to visit this years QCon London conference. It has been great so far! I’ve listened (and asked questions) to various interesting members of the community like C.A.R. Hoare (Computer Science, inventor of qsort), … Continue reading →

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