Codingdomain.com

About this site

This site is my online space to share information about the art of coding.

I'm Diederik van der Boor, 25 years old, live in The Netherlands. As daily job, I code pretty things and bring designs and concepts to life.

About the name

When this site launched, I was looking for something that would be easy to remember; www. 'something with coding' .com. And this one was free. :-)

Unlike the domain name might suggest, this is not a commercial web site. If I'd chosen a name today, the web site most likely would have an .org extension.

Daily life

Things I do in my week:

• Aikido, an Japanese martial art.
• Mentoring kids at Scouting
• Go out on Saturday night.
• and working with computers

What I used to do:

• Ballroom and latin dancing.
• Squash

Computer work

I have experience with the following programming languages: ASP, ASP.NET, C++ (with Qt and KDE), Java, JavaScript, XHTML/CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, UNIX Shell, Visual Basic, XML/XSL. I've also administered Linux workstations and servers during my job. See LinkedIn for more information.

When time allows to me, I write C++ code for KMess, and use XML/XSL to update this web site.

I like to follow blogs like Planet KDE regularly because I'm quite excited how KDE, Linux and Open Source in general are developing. I love these projects for their worldwide communities, and dedication towards creating the best software possible. Fully in the open, empowering people, and geared to make a difference for our society.

Stuff to promote

There are some things that deserve some special attention:

Mozilla Firefox	Firefox is the next generation web browser. It is also a valuable tool to develop web sites and follow web standards.
No Patents!	The new software patents rules could be devastating for small companies and Open Source software.
Valid XHTML Valid CSS	Web standards make it able to write quality web sites viewable with any Internet enabled device.