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Kate, the AI-Driven Personal Digital Assistant of KBC, saw daylight in December 2020. KBC always intended for Kate to “grow...
22 Jun 2022 — 3 minute readKate, the AI-Driven Personal Digital Assistant of KBC, saw daylight in December 2020. KBC always intended for Kate to “grow...
22 Jun 2022 — 3 minute readIn december 2020, KBC (Banking and Insurance) launched Kate to its customers. From the start, I was responsible for designing...
03 Jan 2022 — 2 minute readAbout nine months ago, KBC (Banking and Insurance) asked me to create the technical architecture of a strategic project. At...
01 Dec 2020 — 1 minute readWhen a former colleague suggested The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, I browsed to a couple of...
17 Oct 2018 — 3 minute readDevoxx Poland takes place in the beautiful city of Krakow at the end of June. I attended the conference last...
20 Jun 2018 — 8 minute readLast week, I was invited to talk about innovation at RigaDevDays. It was the second time I got the opportunity...
31 May 2018 — 3 minute readMany software projects use an agile approach to deliver software in an iterative manner. The goal is to deliver value...
15 Apr 2018 — 2 minute readWorkshops Last week, I hosted another architecture workshop for a large consultancy company in Belgium. The audience consisted of experienced...
30 Mar 2018 — 2 minute readWhat is Technical Leadership A Technical Lead has the responsibility to help the team move forward. The person assigned to...
22 Dec 2017 — 12 minute readOn the 18th of October 2017, Ordina Belgium organized the first Ordina Architecture Kata. The session was presided by Bart...
20 Oct 2017 — 7 minute readThe last time I visited JavaOne was back in 2014. So, I was very excited to go back to San...
01 Oct 2017 — 5 minute readSoftware development has evolved. Agile is now the de facto standard. The role of an architect in an agile project...
21 Jun 2017 — 9 minute readSATURN is the leading international conference for software architecture practitioners who look beyond the details of today’s technologies to the...
04 May 2017 — 5 minute readSoftware architecture is getting a lot of attention. It looks beyond the details of today’s technologies to the underlying trends,...
14 Apr 2017 — 6 minute readIn recent years, the uprise of the cloud has brought us a lot of new and disruptive technologies. Everybody is...
12 Nov 2016 — 15 minute readSpringOne Platform is the successor of SpringOne 2GX, with a focus mainly on Spring and Cloud Foundry. Next to these...
09 Aug 2016 — 4 minute readJavaLand is a software conference, held annually, in Phantasialand, Brühl (Germany). JavaLand focuses on Java enthusiasts, developers, architects, strategists, administrators...
29 Jun 2016 — 4 minute readAlthough I have been using Git for quite some time, I’m always interested in learning more. That’s why I attended...
27 Nov 2014 — 2 minute readLast week I had to opportunity to attend JavaOne in San Francisco, as a speaker. JavaOne is the largest Java conference...
07 Oct 2014 — 3 minute readHP Discover is Hewlett-Packard’s biggest showcase technology event for business and government customers. There are 2 HP Discover events annually,...
15 Dec 2013 — 2 minute readLast Friday I organised an Android Workshop at HP. The target audience were Java developers. I divided the workshop in...
09 Dec 2013 — 1 minute readIBM Innovate is a technical event for software and systems innovation. IBM states that the event is designed to help...
14 Oct 2013 — 4 minute readOn Cumulogic’s website it is stated that Cumulogic is an enabler for rapidly building Amazon-style cloud services securely on a private cloud and...
27 Mar 2013 — 5 minute readSome time ago, I did an article on Continuous Deployment, using LiveRebel. While I still think LiveRebel is a very...
19 Mar 2013 — 3 minute readFOSDEM (the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is an, HP sponsored, event that offers open source communities a...
02 Feb 2013 — 3 minute readYesterday, I attended a BeJUG event on JBoss Forge and Arquillian. I heard some good things about Arquillian, so I...
30 Nov 2012 — 3 minute readAt Devoxx, I had an interesting chat with the guys from ZeroTurnaround on their LiveRebel product. LiveRebel is a Java EE...
25 Nov 2012 — 3 minute readThe second part of Devoxx consists of 3 Conference Days. The talks during the Conference Days are shorter then those of...
16 Nov 2012 — 5 minute readDevoxx doesn’t need much of an introduction: it is the largest vendor-independent Java conference in the world, organized by the...
13 Nov 2012 — 4 minute readRecently, I read Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin. While I certainly don’t agree with everything in the book,...
24 Jul 2012 — 1 minute readI recently acquired my HP EliteBook 8560w. I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. Installation was not straightforward,...
18 Jul 2012 — 1 minute readThis is more a personal rant then anything else. Anyone who ever used Wicket, will have noticed that it tends...
26 Nov 2010 — 1 minute readI’ve been doing quite a lot of Android development lately. Most of the time the API Specification and Dev Guide...
20 Jul 2010 — 2 minute readLast Friday, I started reading Hello, Android - Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 2nd Edition by Ed Burnette, which I...
31 Jan 2010 — 1 minute readLast day of Devoxx today, actually it was only half a day as the conference ended at 13h. Devoxx was...
20 Nov 2009 — 2 minute readSecond day of Devoxx today! Unlike yesterday, traffic to the venue was bearable this time, so I arrived a bit...
19 Nov 2009 — 4 minute readDevoxx (formerly named JavaPolis) is an annual European Java conference organized by the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG). Devoxx is...
18 Nov 2009 — 4 minute readFor little more than a month I’ve been coaching a Junior Java Developer on a project for the Flemish Government....
12 May 2009 — 4 minute readUnderstanding the difference between mutable and immutable objects in Java is easy. Gaining access to both mutable and immutable objects...
26 Feb 2009 — 3 minute readLast week I encountered a grouping problem when designing an XLST stylesheet. The application I’m working on, receives an input...
06 Feb 2009 — 2 minute read