Travel, Food & Development

On my second trip back to Indonesia I decided to stay a longer time to really learn something about the culture. I traveled together with my girlfriend, to a little bit of everywhere. We stayed for a single week in Bali - where we went to a little bit of everywhere. These are some of our most favorite locations.

The good thing about the dutch weather is every so often it's a good time for barbeque'ing. Last week we had one of those days where we can enjoy the roasting of sausages over open fire. Laptop, a lounge set, sausages what more is needed right?.

Last year I was briefly in Helsinki during the summer festival which was held in august. On my way back to the Netherlands I saw the logo of the Unity office on building. The first impressions I had coming into this city are the large streets and the relatively 'big buildings', very different from in the Netherlands.

Every now and then a developer needs to change his system to a clean installation. Honestly said for most of us our computers are just like your high-school chemistry assignments, where disregarding all the rules you just mix everything until a chemical reaction starts to stir. Hopefully without any explosions. In my case I just freshly installed to windows 10 on my solid state drive. One problem after reinstalling the folder path of my username is auto-generated with a rather cryptic scheme. Quickly followed some tutorials. Renamed the folder path in HKLM/CurrentVersion/Microsoft/Windows/ProfileList.... and after this the windows store starts to malfunction. Even worse, it makes deploying (universal-)apps from Visual Studio also impossible. The solution is always more trivial. To fix the problem all I had to do was go to my user settings, and click the link "Sign in with a local account instead". This will proceed with a number of questions that changes the account na...

On my first trip to Indonesia i was here for almost three weeks and we had the luxury of seeing parts of the country. For a few days we went to Ahmed on Bali, a popular diving spot. Where you can find the liberty wreck. After that we went back to the main island Java, where we went to Batu. In this small town you will find one of the largest Zoo's where you can walk literally for hours.

MCollective or 'Marionette Collective ' is a framework to distribute parallel commands to a cluster of computers. You can basicly compare it to remote execution except the framework is organized to work the commands in parallel. Via a simple plugin structure of ruby it is relatively easy to write your own commands. Marionette Collective works on top of a message queue broker, you can pick different flavors for the broker but the most common adoption appears to be activemq. Other brokers such as rabbitmq are supported as well. With MCollective there are basicly two configations 'server' and 'client', contrary to terminology, 'server.cfg' is used for the deamon service. In this configuration file you configure what queue on the broker the deamon connects to receive commands. In the 'server.cfg' you configure the queue on the broker to send the commands. So in short: server.cfg is for the command-line client,  client.cfg is for the deamon proces...

On our way to a road-trip headed to Germany, Frankfurt amz Main. We had the chance to stop by for one of my favorite foods as a child: Curry-wurst with fries. This brings back so much memories where we'd often go spent the Christmas weeks in Germany, going over the Christmas markets/fairs and enjoying the hot curry-wurst from the stands with snaps or gluhwein. Of course during a road-trip one cannot stop to have a little lunch too, yummie pie and sandwhich