Steve Oakley, the head hunter

Every once in a while head hunters call me. They call you at home, at work, they work out your email adress and mail you… This will probably sound very familiar to most IT professionals.

Anyway, the thing that strikes me is that about 50% of the time a head hunter calls, its Steve Oakley! And it isn’t just me that is getting calls from Steve Oakley, no, all my collegues and friends are getting calls from him as well!

So, are you in or out? Have you been called by Steve Oakley yet?

Feed your curiosity

Curiosity is an emotion related to natural inquisitive behaviour such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human and many animal species.

Source: wikipedia

To me, curiosity is one of the greatest things we as humans have. It feeds you with knowledge and sparks your fantasy, its an emotion that tickles your brain and forces you to explore.

In life its vital to search for new things, new limits, new experiences. Always keep asking questions, because with every answer you find, more questions will arise!

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VMWare on your phone?

Recently VMWare, known from its computer virtualization software, has announced they are developing a dual-boot mobile version. This would allow you to run both Windows Mobile and Android on your phone.

But it isn’t going to be a dual-boot you know from your computer, they are planning on running the OS’es at the same time. This would allow you to switch between OS on-the-fly.

• You want to use a Windows Mobile app? *click*
• Oh, you want to use something on the Andriod platform? *click*.

I’m very curious how this will work out performance-wise, but the idea itself is great!

Via: computerworld.com.au

#songsincode

What is #songsincode ?

Last week I discovered a new hype on Twitter. The so-called “#songsincode”. It’s a huge hype under programmers and technical users. The best way to explain is probably by showing an example:

if( door == red ) {
   door.paint(black);
}

This obviously is Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones (if the door is red, paint it black)

My own #songsincode:

Here is a collection of the #songsincode I created and tweeted:

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Styling and plugins

Ok, I’ve installed a theme and I’m now adding all kinds of stuff. For example, notice above that you can see my latest tweet! A little personal touch.

I’ve also installed a code-formatter plugin, so I can do a code “Hello World” too now:

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello world, from inside the code-formatter!");
    }
}