There is an annoying feature from Firefox I just found out is causing me huge problems. DNS Prefetching: This feature allows firefox to try to prefetch and cache DNS entries related to the sites you visit. Firefox attempts to speed up loading new websites by using DNS Prefetching, which can cause page load errors with… Read More: Fix #Firefox issues when load-balancing by disabling #DNS prefetching »
The first time I heard of this guy I was fascinated by him: Paul Le Roux . He is the suspected creator of TrueCrypt the open source software to encrypt your disk. If you never used TrueCrypt maybe you know and use its latest fork VeraCrypt. So, this guy started as an open source idealist… Read More: What happens when #opensource #truecrypt #programmer got cheated by big… »
The following is a very quick guide on how to set up a EasyRSA certificate based authentication of SoapUI API client to connect to a WebService based API that runs on JBoss or WildFly. Generate a local CA with EasyRSA Download and install easy-rsa – https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa Go to the installation folder and change the following… Read More: #EasyRSA Certificate based authentication of #SoapUI client to a secure… »
After upgrading my developement Oracle database to 12c I discovered that an old legacy application still under support was no longer working throwing the following Oracle error: After some digging I found the following reported bug: Bug 14575666 In 12.1, the default value for the SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter has been updated to 11. This means that… Read More: Migrate legacy application using Oracle 10g to Oracle 12c »
One of the most annoying things is when some vendor decides that it is a good idea to change some very basic and long time existing basic behaviour. In the new Oracle 12c you are no longer able to create local users the old way as sys: If you try to execute the above the… Read More: Create local users in #Oracle 12c »
If you travel a lot by plane you stumble on all sort of people in the airports. This is a short list of the types I identified: The lost bunch: People running around like headless chickens, lost in the terminal. They annoy everybody and create a buzz in the terminal. The herd: Compact group of… Read More: Some travellers you meet when you #BusinessTravel »
You know when your code turns into spaghetti and you start wondering what you were eating or smoking when you wrote that code. Usually nobody is such a bad programmer that writes spaghetti code, spaghetti code is something that builds in time when features are added at big pace or when you implement fixes or… Read More: Short thoughts on Code #Refactoring »
This is another trip done in August 2018. How to get there: Going to Angola is easy, there are a lot of airlines flying there. Obviously, the Portuguese airline has daily fights from Lisbon but you can also take the direct flight from Paris or Brussels. Luanda is a very strange place in… Read More: My #businesstrip to #Luanda #Angola »
Working for a multinational company that implements payment systems across the world has its ups and downs. Traveling to new and strange places which are not usually on ones travel wish list is one of the ups. This is just my opinion, I know people for which having to travel to strange places is a… Read More: My #businesstrip to #Ulaanbaatar #Mongolia »