Jef Claes

On software and life

06 Feb 2012

Testing DI bootstrappers

While your [Dependency Injection](http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) bootstrappers - being responsible for...
01 Feb 2012

A solar storm anecdote

Last week, several news channels reported on the strongest [solar storm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare) since...
19 Jan 2012

How Wikipedia uses HTML5 to save bandwidth

Something I hadn't noticed until recently is that Wikipedia tries to use the browser's native [SVG](http://www.w3.org/TR...
15 Jan 2012

Autocorrecting unknown actions using the Levenshtein distance

This weekend I prototyped an idea I had earlier this week: autocorrecting unknown actions in ASP.NET MVC. ### Handl...
26 Dec 2011

2011 Annual Review

Since the end of the year is approaching, I would like to look back on 2011 and take a peek at 2012. Unlike the years be...
17 Dec 2011

2011's most read posts

I compiled a list of most popular posts that were published on this blog in 2011. Unlike [last year](https://jefclaes.be...
27 Nov 2011

When should you take performance into consideration?

Before publishing [my previous post on rewriting an if](https://jefclaes.be/2011/11/rewriting-if.html), I knew some peop...
24 Nov 2011

Rewriting an if

Yesterday I came across an if statement that looked something like this. ```csharp if (arg == "a" || arg == "b"...
23 Nov 2011

Blame no one but yourself

Blame no one but yourself. This is one of the few quotes I remember months after reading [this book](https://jefclaes.be...
20 Nov 2011

Daydreaming about jQuery Mobile and the WebAPI

I recently blogged about [programming for the future of mobile](https://jefclaes.be/2011/11/programming-for-future-of-mo...