Regular expressions allow us to describe families of strings in a user-friendly and intuitive way, if you’re that kind of person. For example, a regular expression can describe valid post codes, phone numbers, names, addresses, etc. A regular expression can be translated into a […]
Why Your Enterprise doesn’t Need Blockchain
Bitcoin has brought a wave of excitement. It’s is mostly because it has brought such concepts as “honest ponzi” and “technical analysis is a real science” to the mainstream, which makes it hilarious that anybody takes it seriously still, but also because they can […]
The Cowardly Convenience of Being Contrarian
Theresa May is a goddamn hero! She stood up for an impossible task: after David Cameron gambled and lost on a vote to leave the EU, none of the winners, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, that mole-looking weasel-guy whose name I forgot or anybody else […]
What’s Wrong with Service Desks these Days
It’s not a question, it’s a statement: I’ll describe exactly what’s wrong with them and my solution, nay, the solution to the problems. This is not some thinly veiled racist protectionistic “the problem is really outsourcing” manifesto, but rather a description of what is wrong with […]
Tableau is Pretty Neat
I often do analysis of logs. I have used many different tools, from a simple ad-hoc command-line analysis using sed and grep, over a more detailed analysis using Excel, and all the way to setting up dedicated reporting tools like Jasper Reports or Grafana. […]
Resetting amAdmin password in OpenAM
So, somebody1 forgot the administrator password to an OpenAM installation, and I needed to reset it. This is not a supported operation, and in the interest of being positive, let’s just say it was a journey with opportunities to make it work… First, this […]