On August 17th 2004 my firstborn son Gerard passed away suddenly at the age of 17. This text will remain where ever I have a website in rememberance of him.
I became a Grandpa
Jul 09, 2019
Today I became a grandpa for the first time. Logan Gerard Smits is born. I am so incredibly happy for Carmen and Coen. If there are people that will be great parents it’s those two.
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Kotlin extensions
Apr 04, 2019
Extensions are a very powerful mechanism to extend functionality on a class. As a lot of classes in the java eco system are closed for (easy) adding functionality. The extension system of Kotlin makes it easy.
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Gerard & my believe system
Oct 13, 2018
I was going trough some old old archives and I found the blog I had when Gerard died. Most of the entries are what you expect pain, loss and anger from a parent.
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Forms in TornadoFX
Mar 03, 2017
Any kind of user oriented application whether it’s a web application, a mobile application or a desktop application, there will be interaction with the user. That interaction is usually some kind of “fill in these fields please, so something can happen”.
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TornadoFX & Guice
Jan 05, 2017
KeepassFX contains the UI running in the JavaFX thread and an embedded jetty server running in its own thread. They both need access to the same data. To make this possible, I use Guice to inject dependencies into the code.
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