Marius van Witzenburg » Project

project: www.worldofomnia.com (terminated)

mariusvw — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:22:25 +0000

After a long period of time working on this project there is an end in the working together.

The site owner's opinion is that the building goes too slow, since I don't have much time next to my work to finish the last pieces we came at this point to pull the plug. Too bad but still it was a nice project to work for.

The future makes place for a new person to take the project, I wish the new webdeveloper good luck with building the new website for OMNIA, hope you have more time than I had

Ps. I will finish the project on my own time, got some people who really wanted to see how the CMS system works. For more information about this CMS goto the page of Pim.

project: www.slagboomvld.nl

mariusvw — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:17:41 +0000

We finished the website of Slagboom Vlaardingen.

Its viewable at http://www.slagboomvld.nl

In the gallery below the left one is the old design and the right side is the new design.

Design & Development by PersC

USB powered Coca-Cola engine

mariusvw — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:34:38 +0000

While surfing the net for 5v fans for a project I'm working on... I stumbled upon this movie...

Nice, an engine made out of a coca cola can and parts of a real engine

101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

mariusvw — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:54:04 +0000

Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall
You start hiring consultants so they can take the blame
The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “Fuck it, I give up”
You have implemented your own Ruby framework that uses XML configuration files
Your eldest team member references Martin Fowler as a ’snot-nosed punk’
Your source code control system is a series of folders on a shared drive
Allocated QA time is for Q and A why your crap is broken
All of your requirements are written on a used cocktail napkin
You start considering a new job so you don’t have to maintain the application you are building
The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’
Ever iteration meeting starts with “Do you want the good news or the bad news…”
Your team still gives a crap about its CMM Level
Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features
Continuous Integration is getting new employees to read the employee handbook
You are friends with the janitor
The SCRUM master doesn’t really care what you did yesterday or what you will do today
Every milestone ends in a dead sprint
Your best developer only has his A+ Certification
You do not understand the acronyms DRY, YAGNI, or KISS; but you do understand WTF, PHB, and FUBAR
Your manager could be replaced by an email redirection batch file
The only certification your software process has is ISO 9001/2000
Your manager thinks ‘Metrics’ is a type of protein drink
Every bug is prioritized as Critical
Every feature is prioritized as Trivial
Project estimates magically match the budget
Developers use the excuse of ’self documenting code’ for no comments
Your favorite software pattern is God Object
You still believe compiling is a form of testing
Developers still use Notepad as an IDE
Your manager wastes 7 hours a week asking for progress reports (true story)
You do not have your own machine and you are not doing pair programming
Team Rule – No meetings until 10 AM since we were all here until 2 AM
Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’
Your team believes the transition from VB6 to VB.NET will be ’seamless’
Your manager thinks MS Project is the best management tool the market offers
Your spouse only gets to see you on a webcam
None of your unit tests have asserts in them
FrontPage is your web page editor of choice
You get into flame wars if { should be on new line, but you are impartial to patterns such as MVC
The company motto is ‘Do more with less’
The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day
The last conference your .NET team attended was Apple WWDC 2000
Your manager insists that you track all activity but never uses the information to make decisions
All debugging occurs on the live server
Your manager does not know how to check email
Your manager thinks being SOX compliant means not working on baseball nights
The company hires Senetor Ted Stevens to give your project kick-off inspiration speech
The last book you read – Visual InterDev 6 Bible
The overall budget is mistaken for your weekly Mountain Dew bill
Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
Your lead web developer defines AJAX as a cleaning product
Your boss expects you to spend the next 2 days creating a purchase request for a $50 component
The sales team decreased your estimates because they believe you can work faster
Requirement – Rank #1 on Google
Everyday you work until Midnight, everyday your boss leaves at 4:30
Your manager loves to say “Why do the developers care? They get paid by the hour.”
The night shift at Starbucks knows you by name
Management can not understand why anyone needs more than a single monitor
Your development team only uses source control as a power failure backup system
Developers are not responsible for any testing
The team does not use SVN because they believe the merge algorithms are black voodoo magic
Your white boards are mostly white (VersionOne)
The client continually mistakes your burn-down chart for a burn-up chart
The project code name is renamed to ‘The Death March’
Now it physically pains you to say the word – Yes
Your teammates don’t refactor, they refuctor
To reward you for all of your overtime your boss purchases a new coffee maker
Your project budget is entered in the company ledger as ‘Corporate Overhead’
You secretly outsource pieces of the project so you can blog at work
A Change Control Board is created and your product isn’t even its first alpha version
Daily you consider breaking your fingers for the short term disability check
The deadline has been renamed a ‘milestone’…just like the last ‘milestone’
Your project managers ‘open door’ policy only applies between 5:01 PM – 7:59 AM
Your boss argues “Why buy it when we can built it!”
You bring beer to the office during your 2nd shift
The project manager is spotted consulting a Ouija board
You give misinformation to your teammates so you look better on your personal review
All code reviews are scheduled a week before product launch
Budget for testing exists as “if we have time”
The client will only talk about the requirements after they receive a fixed estimation
The boss does not find the humor in Dilbert
You start noticing your boss’s poker tells during planning poker
You start wondering if working 2 shifts at Pizza Hut is a better career alternative
All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines
The project has been demoted to being released as a permanent ‘Beta’ version
Your car is towed from the office parking lot as it was thought to be abandoned
The project manager likes to doodle during requirements gathering meetings
You are using MOSS 2007
Your SCRUM team consists of 1
Your timesheet looks like a Powerball ticket
The web developer thinks being 508 means looking good in her Levi Red Tabs
You think you need Multiple Personality Disorder medication because you are Mort, Elvis, and Einstein
Your manager substitutes professional consultant advice for a Magic 8 Ball
You know exactly how many compile warnings cause an ‘Out of Memory’ exception in your IDE
I have used IDE twice in this list and you still don’t know what it stands for
You have cut and pasted code from The Daily WTF
Broken unit tests are deleted because they are obviously out of date
You are sent to a conference to learn, but you skip sessions to go hunting for swag
QA has nicknamed you Chief Off-By-One
You have been 90% complete 90% of the time
“Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too… thanks”

Plastic Heroes in utrecht

mariusvw — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:19:29 +0000

project: www.rotterdampas.nl

mariusvw — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:25:50 +0000

Working on a new design for www.rotterdampas.nl

The Rotterampas is something you can subscribe for and take advantages of... Such as discount on trips to attraction parks

You can visit the site soon at www.rotterdampas.nl

project: www.ancient-gaia.nl

mariusvw — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:03:15 +0000

A new project for a webshop and community in progress soon. I just have called with a friend of mine who likes to have a new sites with a lot of features to build up a community with the gothic and metal world in mind. You can visit the site via the following links: www.ancient-gaia.nl www.ancient-gaia.com www.ancientgaia.nl Lets hope a lot of peopl A new project for a webshop and community in progress soon.

I just have called with a friend of mine who likes to have a new sites with a lot of features to build up a community with the gothic and metal world in mind.

You can visit the site via the following links:

www.ancient-gaia.nl
www.ancient-gaia.com
www.ancientgaia.nl

Lets hope a lot of people will like the new site

At least, i will e will like the new site At least, i will

fun: digidaantje guerilla night at youtube

mariusvw — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:41:20 +0000

DigiDaantje's guerilla night posted at youtube.

I hope you all will like the clip about this happening!

* update *
You can find the clip here:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFF7nteiyE

project: www.spruitjesjanatuurlijk.nl

mariusvw — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:17:48 +0000

You can visit the site in dutch an german at:

- dutch:
www.spruitjesjanatuurlijk.nl
- german:
www.rosenkohljawohl.de

Hope you like it

project: www.digidaantje.nl

mariusvw — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:25:15 +0000

A new project online after a lot of hard work. Personaly I realy like this site. Keep in mind, its in dutch!

You can visit this site on the following url:

http://www.digidaantje.nl/

On this site you can see a lot of things you can do with various javascripts and javascript frameworks.

If you find any bug in this site, don't hesitate to contact me about it on marius@kitara.nl