My thoughts on various subjects. I particularly love hacking my work. Either by methodology or by improving my tools. Check out this list of tags / subjects.

Recent Posts

Dog vs Cat diary

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This is not new by any means but I recently saw this joke. As a recent dog owner I must admit I found it too true to not laugh. Excerpts from a dog’s diary ...

Bash script to expand file templates

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I am working on pushing all my “dotfiles” into a Git repo. Some contains passwords or other private data. It took me longer than expected to write an expande...

What design philosophy for your projects?

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We had a hotted debate recently in the Hibernate Validator team on a given feature. As a result, we started to write down our design philosophy for the libra...

Feedback on Twitter Bootstrap

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Everyone and his dog is in love with Twitter Bootstrap, so I figured I would give it a try and build my website with it. What is Twitter Bootstrap Twitter ...

The perfect storm creates new website and blog

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I have been fed up with Wordpress for a while now. Having to upgrade the core plus an average of 4 plugins every time I went to blog was too much. And I am ...