Open Kosmaczewski

You might remember my beloved mantras: learning a new programming language and reading at least 6 relevant books every year. Following the 2007 edition, here’s the list of the 8 books I have enjoyed most in 2008, ordered by a purely subjective and absolutely irrational decreasing preference. I strongly recommend all of them!
Winner: Geekonomics: The [...]

This is happening right now, at a web agency near you.
The dot-com boom of the 90’s spawned a brand new generation of coders and software developers, including me, by the way. While before that time the term of “software developer” might have been reserved to system programmers fluent in C, COBOL, C++ or other languages, [...]

A watch might be one of the most common types of objects, but it remains also one of the earliest pieces of human craftmanship to show an extreme level of complexity, all contained in a small amount of space. Since the late 1700s, artisan watchmakers in Switzerland and elsewhere have shown their pride and skills [...]

I just updated the Projects subsection of this site with some .NET code that I wrote, between 2003 and 2006:

OrugaSystem: The OrugaSystem project came to my mind first as an HTML RTF converter, but later evolved into a generic transformer framework; it was created with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and it runs under the [...]

Well the PowerPoint slides that I used during the TechDays 2006 conference have been published in the TechDays page. You can download them from this site as well:

A204 – SharePoint Workflow (zipped, 6.5 MB)
D308 – LINQ (zipped, 6.7 MB)

BTW, they are in French… and yes, the slide with Maradona on it is maybe the most [...]

Next week I will be in Belgium working with the Thales team in Brussels, building a new software solution (for a customer of the public sector that I cannot disclose here) using the following technologies:

Spring Framework for .NET
NHibernate

Personally, this seems like a rather new (Microsoft-less) way of doing a .NET application, and I like this! [...]