KISST: Keep It Simple Software Technology

This site is dedicated to my strong belief in keeping software development as simple as possible (but not simpler).

Articles

This section contains some of my sometimes controversial beliefs on good software practices according tot the "keep it simple" principle.

Getter and setter method sometimes considered harmful

XML for structured data considered harmful(old, dutch)

My apologies for the cheezy title referring to Dijkstra's famous paper. I considered different titles (e.g. a "The trouble with ..." series), but these "Harmful" titles seems best in delivering the message.

Software

These are some open source packages I am working on. They are still in an early stage. Documentation is still missing, even the license isn't included yet. They will be distributed under the GPL. If there are any licensing problems or questions, please contact me.

The RelayConnector, a open source Application Connector for the Cordys ESB and BPM tool.
Caas: The Cordys Administration Automation Scripting tool.
jydom: a simple package to manipulate XML in jython (Java Pyhton), using the jdom package.
db4j: a simple package for using databases under java. It is something like hibernate (less mature and comprehesive though), but includes messaging.