Category: Software Development
Platys is a tool created by Guido Schmutz, architect and data specialist at Accenture and frequent teacher at various universities. In order to be able to quickly create an …
That is a long title. In this article, I introduce a Gitpod workspace (cloud based ephemeral development environment) in which you can try out NocoDB – an open source …
Click on a button- or this link. Wait about four to five minutes. You will have access to a free cloud based environment with a three-broker-node Apache Kafka Cluster, …
Triggered by an assignment my son had to do for one of his university courses – and given the fairly light weight laptop we have him work with – …
ChatGPT is a bit of a “tongue twister” so I will speak of Cheppy. AMIS has a long history of spotting, exploring, embracing and rolling out new concepts and …
Introduction I used LastPass for several years, and it helped me a lot to access my passwords and secrets on any moment, from multiple devices, in a secure way. …
Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …
To quote Wikipedia (here): “Stable Diffusion is a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022. It is primarily used to generate detailed images conditioned on text descriptions, though it …
GitHub Copilot helped me write a Java application to process a CSV file. Not a hard task – though one that in Java always feels much harder than in …
Recently the OpenTelemetry project launched a demo application that demonstrates many aspects of instrumentation, metrics and trace gathering, providing insight across multi-service, multi-technology application stacks and in general how …
I have prepared a Gitpod wokspace definition that allows me to start a fresh development environment with the latest release of Dapr (dapr.io) installed as well as supporting containers …
A conference such as Devoxx is a great opportunity to get inspired into trying out tools and technologies that may not or only be vaguely be known as they …
End of day two. So many topics already were presented, demonstrated, discussed, tried out to and by me. This article is just a very brief overview of what caught …
This article describes how you can run your very own Oracle Database from your browser using Gitpod. With a free account (50 hours Gitpod use per month), you can …
Gitpod.io is a SaaS for software developers (that can also be used in self-hosted mode on Kubernetes). Gitpod makes workspaces available – typically based on a Git repository – …
For the Open Day we organize shortly for our family, friends, neighbours and other interested parties, my colleagues create a custom web application to support our QR Scavenger Hunt …
How hard can it be – to create the smallest possible container image to run a Go application? It is not hard to create a container image that contains …
Project Fn provides a framework for creating and running serverless functions. It is the foundation for the Functions service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Dapr.io is an open source project …
I’ve used Vagrant since 2015 in combination with Virtualbox for creating development machines. Recently however I’m experiencing more issues with Virtualbox. For example CPUs getting stuck when assigning multiple …
Previously I wrote about generating random data which conforms to an AVRO schema (here). In a recent use-case, I encountered the situation where there were several separate schema files …
AVRO schema are often used to serialize JSON data into a compact binary format in order to for example transport it efficiently over Kafka. When you want to validate …
Recently I was designing an AVRO schema and wanted to test how data would look like which conformed to this schema. I developed some Java code to generate sample …
It turned out to be a fairly small deal. For reference sake a brief write up of updating the Go runtime on my Ubuntu environment. Current version: go version …
I have been struggling a bit with this one: how to connect from a Go application to an Oracle Database – both a locally running database as well as …
Surely I would never be so stupid as to commit a file that contains sensitive information – say my Oracle Cloud account’s private key. And even if I did, …
I have used many open source products in my professional life. I have not studied the sources of many of these products and projects. My main contributions to the …
Vagrant can be used to quickly create development environments in for example VirtualBox, VMWare or Hyper-V. I decided to use Vagrant to create a quick Apache NiFi development environment. …
In a previous article I described how I prepared my local development environment from working with the source code of the Dapr project – locally editing, building and running …
In other articles I will write about the value of Dapr – as a personal assistant to any application that helps out with state, configuration and secrets, receiving inbound …
VS Code DevContainers allow us to easily configure and run a container with our development tech stack for the specific project or product we are working on – and …
Gists are the code snippets that you want to retain and share – with yourself and with others. Gists can be embedded in websites, blog articles and articles on …
The most popular IDE – VS Code – comes with a ton of extensions, and each can make life easier, more productive and more fun for developers. Recently I …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Functions service, a FaaS offering with serverless functions, based on container images built with the Project Fn FDK. In a previous article, I introduced …
The situation: a Compartment on OCI should be removed. Or at least all its resources should be purged. Or at least most of the resources should be removed. The …
This article introduces Build Pipelines and Code Repositories in OCI DevOps (released on October 26th 2021) – complementing the Artifact Registry and Deployment Pipelines that were first launched in …
This year I had to work with a colleague for multiple internal poc’s that we could use to show customers. Together we started thinking about the approach and where …
In this blog I will explain how to generate static HTML pages from your projects Pydoc (docstring) comments with Sphinx. Then we are going to host it in an …
In this blog I will show you how to run a Jenkins agent that can use chrome from a docker container. The Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file are explained in …
Quality is something which is hard to define. Different areas of expertise use their own definitions of what quality is. Without an objective standard which carries weight, anyone can …
Is it possible to make something simple as making a screenshot easier? Yes, I have been using the free and open-source tool Greenshot for the past year. And I …
