December 2002

Today it's 2 years ago since I started working at Net.Footworks.


Tibor started working there a few months earlier and he recommended it when I told him I was looking for a part-time job. The first time I saw everybody was at an extremely dull XML-course. However, everybody agreed that it was a boring course and the work they described sounded promising. After some talking I started working December 4th, 2000 for two days a week.

My first project was Twyp. It's a payment website and the project was done by Chess and Net.Footworks together. I was a Java programmer in this project. Of course I knew the language already but I learned a lot of new things. After working on Twyp for about a year we (Net.Footworks) moved to our new own building.

There we started reisbureau.nl a large website for travelagencies. Unfortunately, the company Net.Footworks no longer exists. However, I'm quite happy with my new place here at Chess.

See some older articles on Net.Footworks.

Something less theoretical now than my internship -- be sure to sit stable while you look at this movie...

A new draft version of my thesis is online. The sources I used too.


I won't announce newer version of this thesis all the time anymore since it's changing every day. However, you can always read it through my internship page.

I just found a really cool article. In my internship I want to find out how to design hardware and software simultanously (preferably using a single language).


My goal is to investigate 3 different methods (languages) to do so and the paper I found is a detailed description how to do so using a specific language (which is called SDL). It's a paper from 2002, which is very nice as well.

Spoke with some collegues about the hardware part of my assignment. I've never really worked with embedded hardware (chips) but they told me there is a lot of hardware (FPGA's, programmable chips) that I can experiment with.

For all of you who asked for pictures on Co-Design: I found one in the Bibliography of Hardware/Software Codesign.

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The picture is a three-dimensional Codesign cube that rotates in space. To view it use a sheet of paper (A4) and hold up to the screen. Make sure that the left eye sees only the left cube and the right eye only the right cube.

First try to match the pictures so you see only one rotating cube. Then focus on the yellow text in the picture. Last follow an upper corner of the cube. It's fun!!

(Design of the Cube by Christian Veith, Rendering by Stefan Micko, Stereo by Klaus Buchenrieder).

In the daily spam: Balkenende 2.






Click on 'Read more...' for a bigger version.

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For the non-Dutch viewers: this is related to the fact that a feel-good-guru presented himself last week as a candidate for leadership of one of the (smaller) political parties.

See also Balkenende 1.

Today we're preparing things for Sinterklaas.
Really convenient that the shops were open today.



Poems, presents... working till late tonight.