Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

My #Trip to #Dodoma, the Capital City of Tanzania

By | February 29, 2020

This post further documents my business trips and shows people places visited from a business-travel perspective. This time I describe my short visit to Dodoma the old/new capital city of Tanzania. Why old? Because in 1974 the Tanzanian government decided that Dodoma is going to be the new capital of Tanzania. Why new? Because only… Read More: My #Trip to #Dodoma, the Capital City of Tanzania »

How to build your own mini data center @ubnt @STARTECHdotCOM

By | January 2, 2020

Moving to a new place has its advantages and disadvantage. If you are a geek, obviously you need to make a new home for your IT infrastructure 🙂 The advantage of a new location is that you get to have fun again in setting up a new mini data center. Due to some restrictions (do… Read More: How to build your own mini data center @ubnt @STARTECHdotCOM »

Time is the new gold ! Why is important to have a life outside the job.

By | December 27, 2019

So what is tech twitter doing on Christmas ? Debating on if it’s good idea to work 40+ hours a week or you have to work more. Toxic tech CEOs, founders and VCs are saying you won’t make an impact to the world if you do not clock more than 40+ hours. The Silicon Valley… Read More: Time is the new gold ! Why is important to… »

#Banking is changing and we will have to change its meaning in the near future

By | December 27, 2019

All this started with a tweet by Chris Gledhill: I agree 100% with the idea that the whole idea of banking and what it is to be a bank will change completely in the next years. I just looked around what “traditional banks” do at this point, in this era of post 2008 crisis of… Read More: #Banking is changing and we will have to change its… »

#Jboss #Artemis AMQ153005: Unable to retrieve ${0} from JNDI. Creating a new ${1} named ${2} to be used by the MDB

By | December 17, 2019

This is a strange annoying warning that suddenly appeared after I upgraded to JBoss 7.4.2 and was completly flooding my output log. It looks like an warning due to a bad configuration that until version 7.4.2 was ignored. My log looked something like this: Of course the fact that somehow the warning message seems to… Read More: #Jboss #Artemis AMQ153005: Unable to retrieve ${0} from JNDI. Creating… »