Here you can find my ruminations on (agile) software development practice, systems thinking, as well as rants against ‘the hype du jour’ and sometimes system administration tips. I call it a ‘column’ as that is what this form has been called by (dutch) newspapers for a long time. On the web, it is hyped as ‘new’ and is often called a blog.

You can find contact details and more information on my professional activities at www.willemvandenende.com .

About the software serving this column

This site is running on a combination of Apache and RubLog, a piece of software created by Dave Thomas. If you want to use this software, you can download the source code and installation instructions from rubyforge RubLog is a simple file-based web log/wiki. It has a few distinguishing features:

• It accepts input in a variety of markup formats. HTML, plain text, and RDoc formats are supplied by default, along with a handler for Usemod wikis. More can be added without much effort (this file is in RDoc format)
• It works from conventional files and from CVS/RCS repositories. This is useful is multiple people are using the same blog: have them check stuff into CVS, and point the blog software at the repository.
• It supports category-based and time-based access (and combinations of the two).
• Output styles are pluggable: a standard example and a style to support printable documents are provided.
• It supports WikiWord-style links between articles (in RDoc mode).

RDoc License

RDoc is Copyright © 2003 Dave Thomas. It is released under the same terms as Ruby.