2016 - the next big thing?
So now we are a day forward in the new year and I realized I’d like to say something about it. For me 2015 has been a big year: finished my studies, learning new things about javascript, cloud …
Mobile CD
This year we created Continuous Integration (CI) for CHECK, but since last month we also are in the process of creating an automated build for our mobile projects. In the DEVOPS and Agile world we …
Jenkins cookbook for CHECK
We are using Jenkins Continuous Integration Server for automating tasks that would otherwise take days and generate more errors surely. We build the database server and web infrastructure daily for …
DEVOPS tools of the trade
One of the important concepts that came to DEVOPS from the Extreme Programming guys was Continuous Integration. It means you build and assemble together daily all the software that has been developed …
Agile operations == DEVOPS
It has been around for some years but when I read about this concept last year I immediately felt comfy: DEVOPS. It’s actually two words and it means the marriage between IT development and IT …
Last weekend we created a game...
It is called spookie! Doris and Tessel both contributed. Click here to play and view it! Monsters all around!
New pictures of the moon with my Celestron 130SLT
The moon through a nice filter Relief in the dark Lots of shading and relief Clean picture of the moon Alone in the dark
Oracle External tables over the network
At one of the projects we do for KPN we use Oracle as a database. For some daily batches we use the external tables mechanism to load data from files we receive from another supplier in the chain. The …
Agile methods and technologies for KPN HR-Analytics
This is a translation of the first part of the introduction of my thesis: The need for relevant information to distinguish yourselves from others, making you faster than your competitor, has existed …
Back to life
A month ago or so I turned on my iMac and something weird happened. The screen stayed black as oil. Reset it and it did actually start to boot, but after a couple of minutes….. bam.. black screen. I …