Expetica International Job Fair

It's that time again! The International Expatica Job Fair will be held on Sunday 2nd November at the Beurs van Bijlage in Central Amsterdam.

For more details see: http://jobfair.expatica.com/

New building in Rotterdam

Yesterday the queen opened a truly new concept in buildings. It is both an appartment and shopping complex and truly worth a visit:  http://markthalrotterdam.nl/

Updated Linux tools for AIX

These RPMs are regularly updated but provided without any kind of warrany:

http://dl.aixtools.net/tools/

I am not sure if these latest versions of Bash have fixed the ShellShock vulnerability but they are likely to be better than the versions most people have.

Netherlands moves toward IR35 style rules

The Belastingdienst has been threatening for a long-time to tighten-up their definition of self-employment and to crack-down on companies using self-employment to avoid payroll taxes. It looks now as though they are about to repeat the mistakes made by the UK Labour party:

http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/nieuws/2014/09/22/wetsvoorstel-ook-opdrachtgever-verantwoordelijk-voor-fiscale-beoordeling-van-arbeidsrelatie-zzp-er.html