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.
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. (yes I am prejudiced).
... ➦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.
... ➦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. I did find my attempt to write down my believe system and I decided to at least repost that one. This was written august 22, 2004.
... ➦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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