Speaking at GitLab Commit!
One of my dreams has come true! I am going to San Francisco in California! And also for an excellent reason. I am allowed to deliver a talk at GitLab Commit in January 2020! The talk will be about the …
New kids class: html basics
The last couple of years I have teached some Minecraft and Scratch programming at the elementary school my kids are attending. Together with one of the other fathers I am trying a new concept today. …
Big versus small
Now that my book has been published I have more time to think. It crossed my mind today that my earliest encounter with GitLab was in 2014, when we needed an on-premise git server, and preferably …
My book is published
After more than a year of hard work (besides the daily job), my book about GitLab has been published! Somewhere in the summer of 2018, a publisher approached me with the question, ‘Can you write …
A bit more personal
So, this is 2019. What is changing for me? Wel.. I am not going to spill al of my life over here, but I am planning to blog more. I totally agree with Jaron Lanier that the current social media are …
Together in one world
Last 2 weeks it was ‘ateliermiddag’ again at the Prins Mauritschool in Rijswijk. These events are organised multiple times per year and the pupils of the school can do various small …
Using Gitlab Pages
Working professionally everyday with Gitlab has made me think twice of hosting my blog on an isolated Digital Ocean Droplet. Especially as we are promoting Devops and Continuous Delivery (for which …
Sien is boos
Als je er op gaat letten, is het opvallend dat kinderboeken zo vol staan met stereotiepe rolpatronen. Stichting Zo-ook heeft hier onderzoek naar gedaan en wil kennis en bewustwording vergroten en ook …
Down and out in Katowice
{% codeblock [First code] [lang:bash] %} var express = require(’express’, template = require(‘pug’)); var session = require(’express-session’) var util = …
Creating Excel sheets with java
Currently I am working on a project where we need to create Excel reports from a datasource. There are several ways to do this programmatically, but our first thought was to do this in Java. We …