Kris Van Bael

Belgium

Age: 39

Degree: Master of computer science

Professional: Was software engineer for 10 years, developing desktop applications in graphics industry. Then product manager & scrum product owner. Now Director Software Engineering, leading a team of about 50.

Home project: developing and maintaining a mobile app, first released for iOS in 2008. Now available on iOS and Android.

I like nice user interfaces. Things that work. C++. Scrum.

I don't like : Discussions that don't make a difference for the end-user

Jun
8
comment Is the usage of internal scope blocks within a function bad style?
Still not convinced. Often long functions are bad indeed. But saying that every need for scope requires a separate function is too black&white for me.
Jun
7
comment Is the usage of internal scope blocks within a function bad style?
But why is it bad? Having many named functions is also confusing.
Jun
3
comment Sorting and averaging the highest values of pixel data
Your greyscale image is not 8bit then?
Jun
3
comment Independency and estimation of user stories that rely on shared predecessor
You are rewarding the team points for a task that achieves nothing for the user. It will likely take the team two sprints instead of one to get to something useful. And the preparation story might get overfeatured to anticipate other future stories.
Jun
3
comment Independency and estimation of user stories that rely on shared predecessor
Nothing wrong with estimating both scenarios (A after B and B after A). As long as you don't name db as a separate story. Because then the team will expect points after completing just that, which smells waterfall.
Jun
3
comment 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
Perfect (notice that with the modulo operator (%3) you could have shortened that code and avoid typos.
Jun
3
comment Sorting and averaging the highest values of pixel data
Why would that be? All it takes is an int array of 256 elements and less than 10 lines of code.
Jun
2
comment Sorting and averaging the highest values of pixel data
Just build a histogram.
Jun
2
comment Sorting and averaging the highest values of pixel data
That is the easy part. The tough part is to determine the right threshold.
Jun
2
answered Independency and estimation of user stories that rely on shared predecessor
Jun
1
answered Is user story the best form of requirement in agile project?
Jun
1
revised 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
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Jun
1
comment 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
I would recommend that you stick to right-handed systems. So you either you inverse your Y, or you inverse your Z.
Jun
1
revised 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
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May
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comment 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
A rotation of pi/2 along the Z axis: [[0,1,0][-1,0,0][0,0,1]]
May
26
answered Tracking progress via a burndown chart when sprints overlap
May
24
answered 3D tiled space viewed one plane at a time; general concepts to understand while programming this?
May
12
comment Distance away from earth to see it as a full disk
Which indeed proves that you would need very-wide-angle eyes/camera to see the full disc from ISS. I believe the first sight of earth like that, was from moon orbit: independent.co.uk/news/science/…
May
11
revised Agile User Stories and acceptance criteria
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May
10
answered Agile User Stories and acceptance criteria
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