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 finite automaton. This automaton can then be used to check whether […]
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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 be viewed as a purely scam and speculation-based commodity, backed largely […]
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 most pieces of software for running service desks. Over the past […]
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. Sometimes, I just need to quickly inspect a simple log, but […]
So, somebody ((Very different from myself, naturally)) 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 procedure works with a single OpenAM […]
People are very into continuous integration/continuous delivery because they mistake continuous for smooth. I guess there’s a reason calculus jokes are not a big thing on the internet. I already wrote about a CI/CD pipeline I’ve developed using Gitlab, Maven, Fabric8 and Spring Boot. This post expands on that pipeline to instead use the fancy new […]
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