The 2020 Mindset – #1 Gratitude

By | January 2, 2020

Dear Reader, I invite you to choose and acknowledge the mindset you wish to follow this new decade. For this purpose, I will be reaching out with further self-exploration invitations, for both you and me. I will provide insights from the books that have inspired me and I wish to recommend. I invite you to… Read More »

Continuous Development is the Way

By | January 2, 2020

Dear Reader, I wish to send out another challenge for those open to it. I was looking at my personal and professional achievements of this year today. I noted the names of people I wish to have often in my life and the ones I prefer to avoid, as Tim Ferriss recommends doing your year’s… Read More »

Who am I? Where and what is the I?

By | December 29, 2019

Dear Reader, As a continuation to the intent discussion, I wish to challenge you to search for yourself, to reach out to your inner depth and wisdom and to re-discover who you are. I, me, mine, own – are the possession characteristics used by the Ego. There is so much more to your persona than… Read More »

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 »

#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 »

End-of-Year Review and New-Year Intentions and Motivations

By | December 27, 2019

Dear Reader, As the year comes close to an end, I wish to point your attention to the power of being present, to acknowledge where you are emotionally, physically and spiritually. Next to these dimensions, you can assess your career and family situation as well. Whichever you feel is relevant, important and necessary for you.… Read More »

Book review: The heart’s invisible furies by John Boyne, 2017

By | December 27, 2019

I recently started writing book reviews and I wish to add to the blog my first English review about a book I also read in English, from John Boyne, an Irish novelist. I do not remember how I came across this title and when I bought it as a kindle version, but this year, I… Read More »

#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 »

#Oracle: ORA-02298: cannot validate "key" – parent keys not found

By | December 17, 2019

When trying to add a foreign key to a table sometimes the error ORA-02298 is thrown. Let’s have two tables a MyTable and a MyTableHistory connected by a historyid column from MyTable that points to the id column from MyTableHistory Try then to add add foreign key like: If we are in the case of… Read More »

Use #ELK stack to monitor #JBOSS application server

By | December 13, 2019

The ELK (ElasticSearch+LogStash +Kibana ) stack is maybe the best method to monitor your environment in a simple visually applying way. My task was to monitor the parameters of a Jboss/Wildfly application server where my enterprise application is hosted. There are several guides that describe how to deploy the basic stack, I am not going… Read More »