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The project manager and his pregnant wife

royvanrijn — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:21:15 +0000

Adding resources

Today I’ve (again) seen this quote on Twitter:

“A project manager is someone who thinks that 9 pregnant women can create a baby in 1 month”

This obviously isn’t the case. The story demonstrates that adding more people to a team won’t (necessarily) make the team more effective. Because some processes can’t be [...]

Devoxx 2011: Speaking at Devoxx

royvanrijn — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:01:11 +0000

I’m back home from Devoxx, I’m still alive (kind of) and it was great!

First of all, I had never been to Devoxx before, so it was all a new experience for me. And second, I was speaking at this conference, which is my first international talk! In this blogpost I’ll try to describe how [...]

Contacts lost after update to IOS5 (iPhone)

royvanrijn — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:52:55 +0000

Yesterday I decided to (finally) upgrade to IOS 5. This new firmware for the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad adds a lot of new features, including iCloud, iMessage and more.

At first the upgrade seemed to be a huge success, everything worked and I loved the fact that all my apps were being updated runtime, [...]

Wedding video

royvanrijn — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:52:16 +0000

This weekend I was invited to a friends wedding. She asked if I could film everything that happened. This was basically the first time I’ve filmed something. I decided to edit everything together with some music. Here is the result:

It was a very nice day and I had a blast filming and editing [...]

Patent, publicity

royvanrijn — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:29:27 +0000

Wow, just wow…

Thanks a lot for all your support people, its great to see and read I’m not the only one to think this situation isn’t normal.

Social networking:

First it became huge on social network sites:
- #1 on yCombinator Hacker News: here
- #1 on Reddit: here

Music Matching (part deux)

royvanrijn — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:37:15 +0000

After a comment on my previous blog entry (about creating a shazam clone) I started tinkering again.

Somebody asked: Could this be used to detect duplicate songs in my mp3 collection!?

That is exacly what I just tried!

The results

Here are some examples:

Duplicate found: 01 – everything in [...]

Some of my software development rules

royvanrijn — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:54:31 +0000

Here are (in my opinion) five of the most important ‘rules’ in software development.

Changes happen

The reason why waterfall doesn’t work and agile works a lot better. Changes happen. People will always change their mind, over time technology changes and situations change. So during software development you will have to be flexible with [...]

I hate printers

royvanrijn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:54:58 +0000

Why, when one color has run out of ink, you can’t print anything!? Why does a pencil cost $0,50 and does an ink-cartridge cost $30,-? Why does a pencil still work after 5 years and is an ink-cartridge completely dried up? Why is a new printer (including ink cartridge) sometimes cheaper then a seperate ink-cartridge [...]

What if your favourite movie was remade as porno

royvanrijn — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:45:57 +0000

What if your favourite movie was remade as a porn movie? How would it be called, what would the title be?

My collegues and I were discussing this, and we came up with a top 10. We’ve also started a twitter hashtag.

Top 10 Shaving Ryan’s Privates (everybodies favourite) The Curious Taste of Benjamin’s [...]

Does my car hate me?

royvanrijn — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:04:21 +0000

Why does my car do this to me? It bugs me everyday. When I drive with the snow outside I have to use my windscreen washer quite a lot. When I pull the little lever behind my steering wheel it spurts a jet of antifreeze/washer fluid onto my screen and it starts to wipe for [...]