Recently I discovered the web socket capabilities of the Tomcat web container. I read a gist by chitan. This was a nice start, but not a complete solution. Some changes were made to the tomcat classes and I don’t really
New book review: Confessions of a public speaker
I have written a short review of a book I read called: Confessions of a public speaker. This is again a book about improving your presenter skills. Confessions of a public speaker
Introducing a query tool for elasticsearch
In my previous blog posts I was working on reading data from wordpress blogs using groovy. This is nice, but of course there was a reason why I needed this. I wanted to create a tool or better a plugin
Doing more ElasticSearch with groovy
In my previous blog post I wrote about a groovy client for reading a wordpress blog. Than using this client I send the data to ElasticSearch to be indexed. Of course you cannot do anything with ElasticSearch if you do
Learning about ElasticSearch
This week I had a training at Trifork Amsterdam by Martijn and Uri from ElasticSearch. This training was a very nice in depth look at the capabilities of ElasticSearch. Like with all trainings and conferences I get motivated to try
Review of the book: Presentation Patterns
I have written a review about the book Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations (@Amazon) In the past I have read multiple books about creating and giving presentations. I really like to present something to the public. On numerous
This was my 2012
It is almost the end of the year, we are getting ready for 2013. Therefore I want to look back at my 2012 as a software engineer. I want to look back at the blogs I have written, the presentations
Why should I want that?
I have two sons that I try to raise to become nice boys with a good education while having a lot of fun. In the evening I tell them to take a shower, brush their teeth. During the day I