Installing spacewalk
Spacewalk is the software behind Red Hat Network. I’ve been meaning to take a closer look for a while now. With a new release out that’s got improved cobbler integration I decided it was time to take...
View ArticleCreating a minimal Ubuntu Server VM
The other day I documented a kickstart process for creating base CentOS VM images. I tried but failed to get ubuntu installed using kickstart. Rather than learn the normal ubuntu process I figured I’d...
View ArticleOracle starts at $87/year or $0.020/hour
Intro: a decade of evolving oracle costs In 2011 I wrote a blog post about Oracle database license costs. Back then I took a look at the open source Spacewalk project using an Oracle Database. I was...
View ArticleWriting one line shell scripts with bash
If you are using ruby with bundler and Gemfiles properly, you probably know about running commands with bundle exec. However, sometimes this does not get you quite the right results, in particular if...
View ArticleThe philosophy of inconsequentialism
These are some of my initial reflections about a newly minted Dutch philosophy. Frank Meester is a Dutch philosopher who has written a new book Waarom we de wereld niet rond krijgen: pleidooi voor...
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Think and say “I don’t know”
We like to be certain of our beliefs, theories, opinions and emotions. We like things simple, consistent, and fast. We follow strong leaders and make their ideas our own. We believe our own memories...
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Rising developer salaries in Amsterdam
What’s a reasonable base salary for hiring really great senior software engineers in Amsterdam in 2022? As always “it depends”, but the answer is also jarringly different in 2022 than it was in 2019....
View ArticleSalary setup for Dutch developers
Let’s now ignore the BigTech companies who are paying lots of money, as well as the employers trying to compete with them, and instead think a bit about the average local Dutch market. What might a...
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Abstract Career Framework for Engineering
I’ve published a career framework on Progression. It is based on advice I frequently give to engineers and engineering leaders at Schuberg Philis (SBP). Since I was having more such conversations than...
View ArticleCaseum: my lightweight approach to software architecture
Described my software architecture approach at https://caseum.org/. Just common best practices and whiteboards. Hope a simple approach in simple English can be inspiring. Short video introduction:
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