Jef Claes
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Jan 2018
Consumed in 2017
Another year, another 17 books, 6 shows and 3 movies consumed. Here's this year's highlights. ## Books ### The Zen and...
27
Dec 2016
Consumed in 2016
I'm keeping the tradition alive, sharing how much I've consumed over the last year highlighting the things that stood ou...
01
Jan 2016
Consumed in 2015
I started in [2014](http://www.jefclaes.be/2015/01/consumed-in-2014.html) to keep lists of everything I consume. I've co...
11
Jan 2015
Consumed in 2014
Starting 2014, I wanted to look more closely at everything I consume. So I started keeping a list of everything I read, ...
08
Jun 2014
Paper notes: A Study and Toolkit for Asynchronous Programming in C#
The .NET framework mainly provides two models for asynchronous programming: (1) the Asynchronous Programming Model (APM)...
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Feb 2014
Thinking in Systems
We are surrounded by systems day in, day out. As software developers, we even get to spend a big portion of our day acti...
12
Jan 2014
Happiness before success
Somewhere in the beginning of last century, two shoes salesmen were sent to Africa hoping to expand their employer's mar...
22
Dec 2013
Databases are growing on me
I learned all about logical design of relational databases back in school; tables, columns, data types, views, normaliza...
08
Dec 2013
Book review: Antifragile
When things are fragile, they break easily. We often see fragility as a bad thing and design things to be robust. But th...
30
Jun 2013
Multiplayer Enterprise Architect
Hanging around in the pub after DDDX, I ended up talking to [Alberto Brandolini](https://twitter.com/ziobrando). For tho...
17
Sep 2012
The 7 R's of Hypermedia
While most [REST concepts](http://www.jefclaes.be/2012/09/slides-and-code-from-my-tunisia-rest.html) are rather easy to ...
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Jun 2012
Book review: The Art of Agile Development
While I have - obviously - read the [Agile Manifesto](http://agilemanifesto.org/) before, and regularly click through to...
17
Mar 2012
Sent from my phone
According to [Matt from 37signals](http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2500-lets-be-honest-sent-from-my) the line "Sent from ...
08
Feb 2012
Book review: Working with NHibernate 3.0
It's been a while since I wrote my last book review, mostly because I'm still trying to figure out when it adds value to...
06
Oct 2011
Book review: The Art of Unit Testing
I think [The Art of Unit Testing](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933988274/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=diofanedebyje-...
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Jun 2011
Book review: More Joel on Software
I was lucky to pick up a copy of [More Joel on Software](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430209879/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=...
10
Apr 2011
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be
This Christmas, my girlfriend and I got this little book called [It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be...
01
Feb 2011
Why I still buy real books
As a technology geek, it should be hard to keep ignoring the latest generation of eReaders (read: [the Kindle](http://ww...
22
Jan 2011
Book review: The Art of Non-Conformity
The book [The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World](http://www.amazon...
15
Jan 2011
Book review: Got Fight?
I rarely review books with non-technical content here, but I just felt like I had to with this one. The book [Got F...
06
Jan 2011
Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming
The [Apress](http://apress.com/) book [Pro HTML5 Programming](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430227907?ie=UTF8&tag=di...
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Feb 2010
Book review: Object-Oriented JavaScript
Although I've made my feet wet with various JavaScript frameworks, I am not a JavaScript hero at all. This might be one ...
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Nov 2009
Book review: Professional Refactoring in C# & ASP.NET
Three months ago I was looking up to refactoring a legacy ASP.NET Webforms application. Although I was familiar with ref...