Andrej Koelewijn

Here’s how i create an update of a vagrant box. It’s basically like creating a new box. I start a virtual machine based on an existing vagrant box, update it and shut it down. Next create a package and add the package:

My mule configurations files often contain proxy settings for connectors that are used to communicate to the outside world. However during development and testing I can’t use the normal proxy, since i’m mocking the outside world. Littleproxy is a java proxy that you can use to replace the real proxy with a testing proxy. This [...]

I’ve been using When can I use… quite a bit recently. It enables you to quickly determine if a html5, css3 or svg feature is enabled in all the different browsers. Very useful.

A project manager is responsible for the succesful execution of a project. Success is usually defined as delivering the project on time, within budget, to the predefined requirements. A product owner is also responsible for the succesful execution of a project. He manages a team, determines the requirements, the order in which the team delivers [...]

I’m working on a small javascript library to use svg drawings for presentations. This would allow you to display a single svg drawing similar to normal presentations on slideshare or speakerdeck. You can see the current state here: SVG Presenter test. I wanted to see if you can use webfonts in an svg drawing in [...]

I create most of my presentations using Inkscape (here’s an example: Presentation: Introduction to Scrum). This is quite a bit of work, as i need to export all the separate images, and import them into LibreOffice Impress. I’ve created a small javascript script that can be used to directly use the svg image as a [...]

When I tried to use the following example by David Dossot mule-agent-based-sync-http-request-handling my jms endpoint times out. In the log i can see that the response message is created, but the outbound endpoint never receives it. After some googling i found the following blog post by Claude Mamo: ReplyTo in a Mule flow. Adding the [...]

Here is a quick example how you can access you can access properties loaded using spring using the Mule expression language.

Yet another big IT project in dutch government failed. A 25 million euro project was cancelled. Lots of press and discussions: Ict-project waterschappen loopt uit op debacle Tweede Kamer gaat onderzoek doen naar ict-problemen Parlementair onderzoek naar ict-problemen bij overheid Why did they spend 25 million before declaring the project failed? Shouldn’t they be able [...]

My LAC-2011 presentation Scrum under Architecture is now available on speakerdeck. Since it contains mainly images, some notes might be useful: Scrum isn’t something by software developers, for software developers Scrum is a tool enabling management of product development by product managers There are two types of projects: those implementing known solutions, and those looking [...]