OCI DevOps Build Pipeline for Functions
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 …
Category: Software Development
Cleaning Out a Compartment on Oracle Cloud using Terraform provider
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 …
OCI DevOps–Build Pipelines and Code Repositories for CI
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 …
Architecture in an agile world
October 5, 2021
Agile Scrum, Architecture, DevOps, Digtial Innovation, Software Development
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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 …
Continuous Generation and Publication of Docstring Documentation on Azure – using Sphinx, Pydoc, Storage Account and App Service
August 17, 2021
Cloud, Containers, Deployment, Docker, Microsoft Azure, Python, Software Engineering, Technology
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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 …
How to run Jenkins with Chrome from a Docker container
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 …
Measure the Quality of your Source Code!
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 …
Review: Greenshot, Easy tool for screenshots
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 …
Blog milestone: 200 blog posts, 1M page views!
This is my 200th blog post. Also I reached 1M page-views recently. In those 200 blog posts, I used approximately 325K words. An average non-fiction book is somewhere between …
SonarCloud: OWASP Dependency-Check reports
SonarCloud is a hosted SonarQube SaaS solution which helps you with code quality management. It is free to use for open source projects. You cannot install 3rd party plugins …
GitHub Actions and SonarCloud
GitHub Actions allow you to do most CI/CD tasks for free, directly from your GitHub repository. One of the challenges however is that there is no build-in facility like …
OWASP ZAP: A quick introduction to a versatile open source DAST tool
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool. It is available here and has a website with documentation here. I recently encountered it when looking …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (1)
March 5, 2021
Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, DevOps, PL/SQL, Software Development
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What’s in a name? A title is important and I hope that it describes well what I do want to share with you in this series of articles. It …
Java Security: Open Source tools for use in CI/CD pipelines
It is often expected of a DevOps team to also take security into consideration when delivering software. Often however, this does not get the attention it deserves. In this …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (6)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (5)”, I told you about Git, Subversion, Maven and Flyway. In …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (5)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (4)”, I told you about the Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (4)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (3)”, I told you about the Oracle Database and Oracle APEX. …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (3)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (2)”, I did show you the database structure. This time I …
How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (2)
February 26, 2021
DevOps, Agile Scrum, APEX, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Database, Deployment, PL/SQL, Software Development
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Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (1)”, I gave you an introduction. This time I will elaborate …
Java Agent: Rewrite Java code at runtime using Javassist
You might want to change the behavior of a Java application at runtime without having to alter the original sources and recompile them. This can be done by using …
Automating actions on Windows – my first steps with AutoIt
I recently spent quite some time on getting to know Playwright – a great tool for automating virtually any operation performed in a browser. Playwright is great for automating …
Python: A Google Translate service using Playwright
There are a lot of use-cases in which you might want to automate web-browser actions. For example to automate tedious repetitive tasks or to perform automated tests of front-end …
Some end-of-year remarks about the AWS Shop Example
It is the end of the year: time to look back, time to look forward. In the past year, I had a lot of extra time because of the …
Performance problems, the Whys.. and Hows.. around them
Introduction Over the last years, as part of my consultancy experience, I had the chance to work on several assignments tackling IT performance problems. In this post I will …
How to dynamically Schedule EM Blackouts after PatchTuesday
November 7, 2020
Enterprise Manager, AMIS, DBA Oracle, PL/SQL, Platform Technology, Tools
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In the organization I’m currently working for, the OS-patch schedule depends on PatchTuesday (PT) just as Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle are using. And PatchTuesday is, as you all know, …
ADF Performance Monitor New Whitepaper Published
We are happy to announce that we have a new whitepaper on the ADF Performance Monitor. This blog publishes a new whitepaper that gives more information about the architecture, …
Jenkins Pipeline: SonarQube and the OWASP Dependency-Check
The OWASP Foundation plays an important role in helping to improve security of software worldwide. They have created a popular and well-known awareness document called the ‘OWASP Top 10‘. …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 3)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 2)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 1)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quickly get going with Kotlin on Windows–using VS Code as IDE
Kotlin has been on my mind. The back of my mind, but still. And apart from a very short workshop last year at Devoxx I have not really tried …
Jenkins: Building Java and deploying to Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a popular platform to run and manage containerized applications. A CI/CD solution is often needed but not always provided. You might need to set this up for …
Run VS Code on Linux, in a container or just anywhere–work in a browser
My colleague pointed the open source code-server project to me. This project allows you to run Visual Studio Code just anywhere – and to develop on any device. He …
My Steps for Getting Started with Java Development on Windows
In this article a brief overview of my steps to set up an environment on my Windows 10 laptop for doing Java programming. If you follow these steps, you …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part2)
In this article, you can read more about a Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: Packaging the native executable in a container In a …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part1)
In my previous article, I already shared with you the Quarkus code guide “Quarkus – Creating Your First Application”, I tried out, including the hot deployment with background compilation. …
Using Vagrant and shell scripts to further automate setting up my Quarkus demo environment from scratch and trying out a Quarkus code guide
In my previous article, I shared with you the steps I took, to set up a demo environment, so I could get started with Quarkus. In this article, you …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In November 2019, I attended Devoxx Belgium together with other AMIS colleagues. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website) were Java and software …
ADF Performance Monitor: New Introduction Video (3:40)
Are you unable to pinpoint frustrating blind spots and recurring problems in your ADF application? This video gives a quick introduction of the features of the ADF Performance Monitor, …
Write debug level logs on error – print detailed logging only in exceptional circumstances
TL;DR: Collect debug information in an in-memory buffer that is printed to the output when an error occurs (and quietly discarded in all other cases). I may have come …