Mark van Venrooij's blog

Adjust design to get green bar

A while ago I read the pragmatic programmer. In the book are many tips listed. In the back of the book there is an tear-out card with all the tips collected. As I’m working on different locations all the time I rarely look at the card. The tips however seem very useful to me. Therefore I created…

December 10, 2011

Review: The clean coder

Last week I finished reading the clean coder written by @unclebobmartin. The book’s subtitle: “A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers”, summarizes the book quite good.

October 10, 2011

How I learned about customer value

The article do users change their settings remembered me about a program I wrote as a student. I created a tool to categorize my expenses similar like Yunoo a.k.a. Afas Personal. This was however a local application. Why the heck should you share your finances on the internet? But let me go back to my…

October 7, 2011

Review: The pragmatic programmer

Finally I had time to read the pragmatic programmer: From journeyman to master. I wish I prioritized differently. The book is written by @PragmaticAndy & @pragdave. This is the second book written by Andy Hunt I’ve read. Read my blog posts about that book. The pragmatic programmer is ranked 2nd in “Top Ten Most Influential…

September 11, 2011

Het nationale park de Hoge Veluwe

Vanmorgen vroeg op. Misschien wel de laatste mooi weer dag van het jaar. Lekker wandelen en fietsen in het nationale park de Hoge Veluwe.

September 3, 2011