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 email …

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 …

This is my short review of the day. Java SE8 for Java Developers Java 8 is slowly increasing it's adoption rate. I think this is a good thing and this is what the speakers and many people from the industry suggest. In Java 8 we have a tone of new language features, some of them are being demoed a lot in these recent …

There were are 3 days full of Java and other technologies as well. Here is my review of the day. Opening keynote(s) The first part of the opening was about Devoxx. The creator Stephan Jansen and some of his colleagues went through the updates regarding the 'Devoxx_ ecosystem of conferences that is now booming. London, …

So many valid points from Bert Ertman in this presentation around Microservices. Are you considering following this path in your project, in your team or your company? Please grab a coffee, a note pad (if you like hand written notes) and watch this. It is really a pain, waste of energy and very discouraging to see many …

I was watching today a short video by the Docker guys on how to setup the new multi host network capabilities, just introduced with Docker 1.9 . In the beginning, the engineer doing the demo was echoing in his terminal screen some very cool, labels and text. Eventually was piping echo to a tool called figlet (I knew it …

Some Kubernetes cheering! As I have written in previous posts, when you start investigating and working with all these new and shiny container / orchestration technologies, there is a high chance that you will end up lost in translation. A lot of information, a lot technologies, a lot of dev-ops, a lot of promises a …