Anyone who has been in the software development business for a while, is certainly familiar with the hassle of arranging, keeping track of, pulling, committing etc. of dozens of local Git repositories being used or developed.
On this same day, precisely two years ago—July 13, 2017—I’ve rolled my mouse pointer over a very beautiful photo of a girl and clicked on Like.
It’s time to fulfil my promise, so please meet Sound Switcher Indicator version 2.2.0.
Tjongejonge, this year ended as suddenly as it began, I couldn’t even find time to blog. This post is the tenth and the last one in 2018 (but I’m seriously considering improving on that matter).
On the positive side, this year has been so eventful that it’s a challenge to recap all things of importance.
That moment when you find out the official Riverside event page at Tivoli Vredenburg is illustrated with your video.
A short announcement.
On 20 September I will be presenting at IDM Europe about two most popular open-source identity servers: Keycloak and WSO₂ IS, exploring their functionality and differences.
My current project makes use of the MySQL database, which runs in a Docker container.
At a certain moment connecting to the database became excruciatingly slow, taking tens of seconds to establish a single connection. After that everything would work as expected.
The application opens a connection some hundred times, so the startup time had become really unacceptable.
I’ve spent a lot of time hunting that down, and then even more time looking for a solution as I failed to find any on StackOverflow. But finally I’ve solved this.
Right before my ten-year anniversary in Holland, on Easter Monday, the castlerun De Halve van De Haar has taken place. I’ve been participating in it since the very beginning (one, two, three).
I’ve been adventurous enough to upgrade my iMac to Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark. That’s the one that features Wayland instead of X Window and Gnome Shell instead of Unity.
The upgrade process proved to be a big challenge and took almost a week, since a regular system update resulted in a black screen. It required a complete OS reinstall from scratch in order to get it working, and then a few more weeks to have it configured my way. The thing is, settings in Gnome Shell are sometimes located at the most bizarre places of Gnome Control Center.
The fact this year has come to an end was a bit of a surprise for me. I remember myself in July and then—bang—it’s Christmas and Sinterklaas is on his way. There’s some explanation for that though, more on which below.
And now it’s time for the traditional annual round-up!
The last has brought major changes for the better for me, in contrast with the gloomy 2016. I’ll remember the following.
