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 (for …

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 …

I always enjoyed sharing knowledge. One of the reasons I blog is to share my knowledge on things around my job as a software engineer. Founding and running (with a handful of friends) the first Java User Group in Greece back in 2003, was due to the fact that we could not get sufficient training or access to personal …

One of the great things, when living in London is that you have access to meetup's and communities for almost every technology you will ever manage to get interested in. After attending the first EU Kubernetes Conference - KubeCon (2 months ago), this was my second time attending the 'Kubernetes London Community' in …

Πριν από 4 μέρες κλείσαμε 1 χρόνο ως νεο-μετανάστες, όπως πολλοί που διαβάζουν αυτό το blog είναι ήδη υποθέτω. Θεωρώ ότι ανήκουμε στην κατηγορία, αργήσατε αλλά τα καταφέρατε μιας και αρκετός κόσμος την είχε ήδη κάνει την τελευταία πενταετία. Θυμάμαι εκείνο το πρωίνό στον Ελ.Βενιζέλος, νόμιζα ότι πάω διακοπές και θα …

Το να βρω νέο dojo και να ξεκινήσω προπονήσεις είναι στιγμή ορόσημο σε κάθε αλλαγή χώρας. Εύχομαι ότι δε θα χρειαστεί άλλη. Μετά απ΄το σύντομο πέρασμα σε ένα αρκετά συμπαθές και μικρό σύλλογο στο Luxembourg, σήμερα έκανα την πρώτη μου προπόνηση στο Sobell Judo Club, στην περιοχή του Isligton (κοντά στο emirates) που …

It is known that I am not the biggest fan of Spring, but at the time being I work for an organization that maintains too many projects utilizing Spring (in different forms and versions). I still remain skeptic towards Spring, of course there are some very nice ideas, there are some nice (too many) abstractions, there …

Όταν πρωτό φτάσαμε στο Λουξεμβούργο, για κάποιο καιρό σκεφτόμουν αρκετά έντονα το σπίτι μου στην Ελλάδα, το δυτικό Χαϊδάρι. Ο πραγματικά υπέροχος καιρός σε αυτό το μικρό καταπράσινο κέντρο ευρωπαϊκό χωριό δεν με βοηθούσε αρκετά. Έβλεπα καθημερινά ειδήσεις, ήταν και εκείνο το δημοψήφισμα, νιώθαμε ότι φύγαμε μάλλον, την …

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. …