Maurits thinks aloud

In 25 years of programming I blogged about the lines of code I have written in several programming languages. I am experimenting with the Google Chart API and created a graphical overview of my personal top 7. Result:

The url to generate the pie chart:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chtt=Top+7&chts=0000ff,32&chd=t:100,70,20,20,5,5,2,3&chs=650x250&chl=C%20(100000)|C%23%20(70000)|Java%20(20000)|C%2B%2B%20(20000)|Pascal%20(5000)|PV~Wave%20(5000)|Basic%20(2000)|Other%20(3400)|

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I have been reading a lot over the last couple of months. Great books like “The World is Flat 3.0″, “Dreaming in Code”, “My Job went to India”, “The five dysfunctions of a team”, “Clean Code” and quite a few more. However I started to realize that although reading is fun, it tends to keep me in my comfort zone. I should really practice writing. People remember great writers. You hardly ever hear people saying “he was such a great reader” about a person that died hundred years ago.

So I just put down here what I’m doing at the moment. Lately I started to automate some things like writing progress reports for customers. Now please don’t stop reading at the word “progress report”. It might become a bit more interesting Continue reading Hacking JIRA with Ruby…