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Bas Geertsema

Ah, so finally Microsoft has also taken the road towards the Model-View- Controller pattern. Scott Guthrie talks about it in his weblog. It was a matter of time ofcourse after the self- proclaimed success of Ruby-On-Rails and the popularity of unit testing. One of the most important motivations that Scott mentions in his articles are ‘seperation of concerns’ and ‘designed for testability’. Let’s take a look at these two: Seperation of concerns.

Bas Geertsema

I recently wrote an article about the concept and implementation of something which I call Role-Based Security in a Hierarchical Environment . It is a form of RBAC (Role-based access control). However, it also takes in account a context object (on which item is my function performing). And role permissions cascade down the context-tree. So having a permission on a certain context object means you also have permission for all underlying context objects (or not, depending on the role parameters).

Bas Geertsema

Hi there all! It’s closure time. I have been back home for a couple of weeks and I have been settling back in my dutch way of life. I moved to a new appartment in the city where I will try to get my master degree. I have been catching up with my administration (the IRS was quite upset with me) and work has been catching up with me. Yes, it is life back home as usual.

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I spend the lunar new year in Hong Kong. Which was great with a big parade, and massive fireworks. The way they celebrate this here is very different than back home, however. Where we all have a big countdown to the climax at 12 o’clock. Here the lunar new year takes 4 days. And actually, there is no cuntdown at all. The festivities are spread over these four days, and are mainly in the daytime (fairs) or evening (parades, fireworks).

Bas Geertsema

Hi to all!! Sorry it took some time, but here it is! Where did I leave you? Oh, yes, back in Chiang Mai. Well, I did the massage course and it was great! The massage course was specialised in nerve massage, so a lot of twitching of nerves and related muscles are a part of the massage. And ofcourse the typical thai way of bending and stretching your head, arms, legs and back.