Lately I try to level up my skills with Kotlin, mostly from the view point of a JVM backend developer. I really feel very motivated and enthusiastic, I think the language has the right balance to make me feel like home (I am a hardcore Java developer after all) but at the same time give me new skills. As I've said many …

With one day delay here is my second day review of Devoxx UK 2017. Front End for Back End developers, Matt Raible I personally don't fancy front-end development mostly because of my dislike towards JavaScript, but I do like to stay in touch with the technology trends, understand the basics of the frameworks. Most …

So, Devoxx Uk 2017. For me it's a 10 year anniversary for one of the best European and now global developer conferences. I still remember my first 2007 Javapolis at Antwrep, it's the conference I got to meet and get in touch with the broader Java community and people like Stephan J. The conference that I managed to …

Well Santa came early for me back at Ticketmaster INTL. When I joined I kind of made a mistake and swapped my original 15 MacBookPro for a smaller one 13inch/iCore5, because I did not want to carry stuff around (even though I don't commute a lot to he honest). Eventually after a year, I am thankful, to receive a …

Today we spent half a day, on our first HackTheTower event. Members of London's Java User Group (aka LJC), gathered on the 26th floor of SalesForceTower (aka Heron Tower) at the City of London, invited by: Heather VanCura Mani Sarkar Simon Maple to talk and learn about one Project Jigsaw, Java 9's modular-isation …

I guess lots of people will have something similar, I thought to share my small customized container. So here, you can find a small Alpine Based container, stuffed with bash curl envsubst kubectl helm (client) It is mostly used as a _gitlab runner, in order to _talk to kubernetes clusters (injected with the …

I find my self doing lots of work in the terminal lately, I have to admit I was not that type of guy or an expert, but over the years I needed to step my bash/cmd/terminal game. So I just red yesterday this very short and simple article, and I was like, wait a minute I've done some of these mistakes in the past. Master …

I am thinking (or maybe I can see), that while more companies jump to the cloud, migrating their existing software solutions and services, things like tech-debt or architectural-debt are going to become a first class citizen and hot topic, again. Which is a good thing! Really! I am very happy about it, because I do …

Last Thursday & Friday, I did a short trip to Greece in order to attend the very first Voxxed Days in Greece, it took place in Thessaloniki. First, I would like to congratulate, the master mind behind the overall organization +Patroklos Papapetrou , who eventually succeeded and materialized a long-lasting dream …

Wow, how many lost minutes or hours, every day, because I did not know this a long time ago. I am bit ashamed. How many times, while working on your mac you get to Open a File, and the system by default opens an editor or an application that is usually set by default. I can not count how many times I have killed Xcode …