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Cloning an OpenSuSE 12.3 virtual machine using GRUB2, VirtualBox and cryptfs 19 Aug 2013 | 02:49 pm
Introduction So I just bought myself a new laptop (an Asus N76VB-T4038H) which I love so far. It’s a great machine and real value for money. Of course it comes preloaded with Windows 8 — which I hate...
Make use of the WebSocket capabilities of Tomcat 14 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
Recently I discovered the web socket capabilities of the Tomcat web container. I read a gist by chitan. This was a nice start, but not a complete solution. Some changes were made to the tomcat classes...
New book review: Confessions of a public speaker 4 Jul 2013 | 01:14 am
I have written a short review of a book I read called: Confessions of a public speaker. This is again a book about improving your presenter skills. Confessions of a public speaker The post New book ...
Introducing a query tool for elasticsearch 12 Mar 2013 | 11:47 pm
In my previous blog posts I was working on reading data from wordpress blogs using groovy. This is nice, but of course there was a reason why I needed this. I wanted to create a tool or better a plugi...
Doing more ElasticSearch with groovy 1 Feb 2013 | 02:07 am
In my previous blog post I wrote about a groovy client for reading a wordpress blog. Than using this client I send the data to ElasticSearch to be indexed. Of course you cannot do anything with Elasti...
Learning about ElasticSearch 27 Jan 2013 | 02:04 pm
This week I had a training at Trifork Amsterdam by Martijn and Uri from ElasticSearch. This training was a very nice in depth look at the capabilities of ElasticSearch. Like with all trainings and con...
Review of the book: Presentation Patterns 30 Dec 2012 | 05:10 pm
I have written a review about the book Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations (@Amazon) In the past I have read multiple books about creating and giving presentations. I ...
This was my 2012 28 Dec 2012 | 03:27 pm
It is almost the end of the year, we are getting ready for 2013. Therefore I want to look back at my 2012 as a software engineer. I want to look back at the blogs I have written, the presentations I h...
Why should I want that? 17 Oct 2012 | 06:22 pm
I have two sons that I try to raise to become nice boys with a good education while having a lot of fun. In the evening I tell them to take a shower, brush their teeth. During the day I tell them to l...
First steps with vert.x: creating a WebSocket sample 3 Jun 2012 | 02:43 pm
Some time a go, a colleague of mine (Joris) told me about vert.x. I liked the idea of having something like node.js on the java platform. So I was interested, but I did not spend time on it. Recently ...
