NAS breakdown – how to recover the data for free?
A while back, my Synology NAS 2415+ broke down after 6 years of trusted service. • Diagnosis: faulty motherboard. • Original price: € 980,00. • Motherboard replacement: € 680,00. • Conclusion: not worth repairing. • Solution: time for a serious upgrade. After looking around and…
Journey of a Craftsman
This year Craftsmen celebrates its 5th birthday, and my (professional) coding career turns 20. Pondering about how time flies I find myself sometimes thinking of the ‘good old days’, like a regular old man 😉 After initially coding on a mainframe I got the opportunity…
Introduction to Eclipse MicroProfile
Craftsmen visited the Oracle Code One, formerly known as JavaOne, Conference in San Francisco in October. Apart from the extracurricular activities like a bike ride (across the Golden Gate Bridge and around the Bay) and a visit to the Google Headquarters, there were lots of…
Oracle Code One 2018 II
Daar gingen we dan. Maar liefst 14 collega’s van Craftsmen naar San Francisco om de grootste developer conferentie bij te wonen op het gebied van Java: Oracle Code One. The Conference Formerly Known As Java One. Oracle Code One is een vierdaags event, van maandag…
14 go Code One – Highlights
In October the first Oracle Code One event, previously also known as JavaOne, was held in San Francisco. This year it was a bigger event than ever before, since it became a conference for all developers not only for Java developers. Or, as Oracle likes…
Craftsmen naar Oracle Code One 2018 – San Francisco
Collega Michel gooide hoge ogen op jFall met zijn talk ‘No-frills REST api testing with REST-Assured‘. Als een van de beste nieuwkomers heeft hij daarmee een timeslot gewonnen om te mogen spreken op Oracle Code One in San Francisco! Meer dan de helft van de…
Storing lengthy titles in Oracle database
Recently we ran into a bug in our software. We couldn’t store long titles because our database columns are constrained to 180 characters. Until then we hadn’t anticipated on, nor entered titles this long. To store the records in the database again, we truncated the…