Finally an update on my blog for you guys. So let me get you current on developments: I am now officially a Bachelor of ICT! I’m presenting the conclusion from the thesis at KPN soon the code I used for my final assignment is downloadable at https://gitlab.cloudseven.nl:8081/joost/horang visited XebiCon 2015 in May and heard lots of interesting stuff on Agile development visited the Microsoft Techdays and learned lots about Javascript, React and Cloud developments

As of last week, all coursework is completed and I have received the following date to attend a session where I have to defend my thesis: 13 juli! Really really almost done!

So there was some progress, not as much as I had hoped, but still! - finishing my thesis (or actually, refining it) The final definitive version is under review (done)finish last course Service Level Management by writing a Service Level Agreement and answer some questions for the last assignment (did 10% )finish the last practical assignment by creating a prototype .NET website in VB with a new technology like a web service that can be used by an app** I have sent the code for the prototype along with the project document and install manual.

The last couple of days I managed to get ahead! finishing my thesis (or actually, refining it) (done)finish last course Service Level Management by writing a Service Level Agreement and answer some questions for the last assignment (did 10% )finish the last practical assignment by creating a prototype .NET website in VB with a new technology like a web service that can be used by an app

I just received word that my research phase for my thesis has been aproved, so that is very good! Now it is really time for refinement. Research model

After 5 years the end is really near. Don’t worry, nothing serious 😉 What was I doing? I tried to combine family life with small children, work and a part-time bachelor studies. So the last hurdles for me to become a Bachelor of ICT: finishing my thesis (or actually, refining it) finish last course Service Level Management by writing a Service Level Agreement and answer some questions for the last assignment finish the last practical assignment by creating a prototype .

Almost forgot that I have made a contribution to the Question2Answer plugin for LDAP-authentication. I need it to connect to MS Active Directory through LDAP and it did not work out of the box for me. After some tweaking I decided to fork the plugin on Github. They accepted my changes when I created a pull request, so that is cool.

So I’d like to introduce Stackoverflow-like functionality to my company network. It can support us internally, because we run a front-and back office team. But we also talked about integrating solutions like this into our own BI/MDM product: My Cloud Controls. We can buy us some of the functionality (from the cloud for instance, or outsource it otherwise), but at our place, we’d like to build or run our own servers.

A couple of years ago I was introduced to stackoverflow.com. That was quite an improvement over my frantic Google searches for IT related questions at the time. I did not like the experts-exchange site which was very popular back then. Long before that I even used old-school Usenet for asking and answering questions about IT topics. This was before it was primarily known as an alternative to file-sharing. The funny thing is it actually predates peer-to-peer file-sharing of course.

My work laptop has been running Windows 7 for a year. The funny thing is I never really used the OS for work. My development environment resides in a Virtualbox vm. The harddisk is a Samsung PM800 ssd and has been crawling to a halt since a couple of weeks. It has trim support and the firmware should support it(i checked it last year) but the write performance is … bad.