About me
Mike van Riel is a Senior Software Developer at Unet BV, an ISP for the corporate segment based in the Netherlands.
With a passion for industry standards and Quality Assurance he loves nothing more than to discuss methods to improve code and ways to 'Do-It-Better'™ in general.
Aside from the regular talk about PHP and web-based technologies he also occasionally tends to write about his personal life, opinions and hobbies.
Installing Lotus Notes 8.5 on Kubuntu / Debian Linux KDE
I have recently switched from employer in search of new opportunities, a new challenge and more tech-savy colleagues. After just 2 days I can say that I have found at least the latter two. Although I never expected to find a challenge in the mail system used, namely IBM Lotus Notes.
After leaving my previous [...]
Kubuntu and a slow Eclipse
You know you want to do it, the move, from windows to Linux when developing locally. It works like a charm, except for Eclipse when you do not pay attention.
One could wonder, why do you want to develop locally? Well, sometimes (twice a day) I travel by train. And sitting still is very hard for [...]