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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I am new to Vert.x but as a Java developer (die hard) I find it much more enjoyable and promising comparing to NodeJS or whatever - Reactor based frameworks/libraries. So I was going through implementing a very simple Restful API, using Vert.x. My problem for today is that I wanted to include some certain HttpHeaders …

Well yet another Devoxx is over for me, it must the 5th of 6th time (or more) can't remember to be honest. it's 3 years since my last one, so it was kind of a come back :). Devoxx (Belgium) is growing, actually it is the first time that I have seen so many people. The venue must have increased the overall amount of …