A Developers Journal

On running

I started to run at the age of 16 circa 2003, mostly because it was the only sport where I didn't suck and I could do it by myself. At the beginning I ran during sport classes and occasionally on Saturdays in my native

Insight

On timing

I started my PhD back in 2011 in Information Systems and Communications, immediately after I received my master degree in computer science. By 2015 I started working full time as software developer and the available time that I could dedicate to the pursuit of

Story

The right tool

Last weekend I changed a shower head in my house. Easy peasy. Unfortunately, the shower arm was badly rotten and also needed to be changed, I tried to remove it with my bare hands and couldn't. It was surrounded with tile glue so I

Insight

Start all over again

My first programming language for the web was PHP, more than 10 years ago. I was a freshly graduated mechanical engineer with several books in my room and starting a master degree in computer science. The only logical conclusion was to build a small

TIL

Today I learnt: application servers

Today I learnt that application servers such as WildFly, Tomcat, etc, will use its own database connection pool when configuring a data source. That explained why my connection pool configured in Spring wasn't working, it was being overriding and therefore my connections weren't being

TIL

Today I learnt: CentOS

I need a virtual machine in my laptop with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to perform a database down drill, but RHEL is not free and I don't have the budget to buy a license just for a drill. Fortunately, I learnt a couple