In the project which I recently joined, I discovered a set of annotations, (part of the code) that eventually did not add any functionality but they were marking classes or fields as a potential bad implementation, or as a potential case that may need to be reworked. The original author, had created a very elegant way …

I fell in love with Kubernetes, a year ago, during a day job research initiative around containers, micro-services, orchestra-tors and platforms as a service frameworks. I'm not a sysadmin, neither an OPs guy, I am a developer. I like to write code, design software, improve them, refactor them, re-architecting them. …

Όταν το καλοκαίρι του 2004 αποχαιρετούσα το όμορφο Canterbury (Kent) όπου και πέρασα μια αρκετά όμορφη χρονιά εντελώς διαφορετική απ_ τα χρόνια του πτυχίου στα κατάμαυρα Midlands, δεν πίστευα οτι θα γύριζα για να μείνω μόνιμα. 12 χρόνια αργότερα, επέστρεψα και μάλιστα συνειδητά, αφού είδαμε και τι παίζει σε κάποιες …

So it is time, after 10 months living and working in Luxembourg, we are leaving. Packaging, arranging relocation, lots of emails, contracts, papers, some anxiety, waiting - it just May 2015 again for me, when we decided to leave Greece. I wish this is my last relocation for the upcoming years, so wish me luck. I have …

via GIPHY Ο τελευταίος 1,5 μήνας, ήταν αρκετά έντονος και αγχωτικός, θα ήταν κρίμα να μην τον καταγράψω εδώ για να τον θυμάμαι. Δεν είναι μυστικό πια οτι αποφασίσαμε να φύγουμε απ_ το όμορφοκαι βολικό Λουξεμβούργο. Δε θα αναλύσω σε αυτό το post τους λόγους, επιγραμματικά θα πω οτι είναι αυστηρά επαγγελματικοί. δε …

One of the projects I follow lately, is Wildfly Swarm. Eventually my request during this year's Devoxx in the JBoss BOF, to consider changing the name of the project, did not go through (due to the conflict with the famous Docker Swarm). So what is Wildfly Swarm? Simply put, is the Wildfly application server (app …

Ζω πια έξω, οπότε δε θέλω να γκρινιάζω αρκετά για την Ελλάδα γιατί όπως λένε και πολλοί, _μεγάλε δε σου πέφτει λόγος πια - δεκτό λοιπόν. Ένα από τα πράγματα που ξεχνάς εύκολα, είναι το μπουρδέλο στους δρόμους άναρχη κατάσταση και την τσιγαρίλα παντού. Μακάρι κάποτε να φιάξουν σε αυτή τη χώρα έστω αυτά, δε μιλάω για …

2015, what a year. The year that I eventually managed to get out of my comfort zone (or one of them) and left my country, to work and live abroad, I also proposed to my wife and got engaged. The most weird and unfortunate year in terms of job and career, that did not go very well - many funny people with funny stories …

Well I needed to kill some time during this strange intermission period between jobs. My original 1-hour hack (less than 100 lines of code), evolved to something more flexible and useful (I hope so). Eventually my father is very happy now, instead of 1 newspaper summary he now receives He was also kind enough, to …

Recently I stumbled upon several articles and examples of this handy library called JSoup, and I wanted to give it a try. It was a good opportunity to play and experiment around with CSS Selectors. My main need was a family request. My father is a captain for the trade navy. He still travels around the oceans in big …