Own your MIND!

By | September 9, 2019

Own your mind! According to the promise for a series of mind-related posts, here comes the first with a command: Own your MIND! If you think that it is easy, you might be either lucky to have been actually dealing with your Mind or blissfully ignorant and/or unaware of the tricks the mind can play… Read More »

Hooked on the blogging habit

By | August 30, 2019

Dear Reader, Since my first book review posted on this blog last year, I have been dealing with my newest hobby: the MIND. For me, the mind is the energetic non-physical entity that encompasses thoughts, feelings, internal beliefs, and the personal interpretation of reality. Thus, for me, mind is synonymous with the soul/spirit/other similar term.… Read More »

Recenzie: Trilogia Sexului Rătăcitor / Vremeș, Cristina, București: Humanitas : 2019

By | August 25, 2019

De curând am terminat de citit o carte românească despre care vreau să vă povestesc pe scurt. Este scrisă de o autoare contemporană, Cristina Vremeș. Ea prezintă superb conflictul și relația mamă-fiică marcată de România secolului 20. Cartea este scrisă într-un limbaj specific, pe care nu pot să mi-l imaginez tradus, sau având același efect… Read More »

Banking 2.0 or the online revolution #Monese #fintech

By | February 22, 2020

My new collector passion seems to be about new challenger bank accounts 🙂 Yes, now is the turn for Monese. My third online bank after #Revolut and #TransferWise. As I already mentioned in a previous post, banking 2.0 is here. Enrollment is very easy with a video based verification and with a simple upload of… Read More »

How RomArg “helped” me to change my domain register to @namecheap ?

By | December 8, 2019

A name registrar is that sort of service provider everybody needs at some point when they get serious about their online presence and want to have their own identity thus domain. Basically from the times when Internet was young their main function is to keep that record of who owns a name and to broadcast… Read More »

#Healthcheck for #golang #microservices

By | July 14, 2019

One of the important paradigm change in moving away from monolith application to a cloud of micro-services is how to keep all that interconnected could functioning. A monolith enterprise application usually runs in an application container so a lot of time you are using the container monitoring features to make assumptions about the heath of… Read More »

#RedHat #JBoss and #Artemis dead-letter queue issue

By | July 14, 2019

After migrating from ActiveMq to the embeded JBoss EAP Artemis messaging server ( see link ) I was getting the following error related to the dead message queue (the default queue where messages that failed to be processed end up). 10:21:04,620 WARN [org.wildfly.iiop.openjdk] (ServerService Thread Pool — 7) WFLYIIOP0111: SSL has not been configured but… Read More »

Libraries #golang : A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images

By | July 14, 2019

The best golang library for generating pdfs. It has so many features and you can control so well the layout of the pdf that I can compare it to LateX level. Package gofpdf implements a PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images. You can find the library at https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf And… Read More »

Libraries #golang : Callgraph analysis and visualization for Go

By | July 14, 2019

This is a wonderful small library that lets you do an analysis and visualization for Go packages. It may be very useful to detect unwanted code and is a very good tool to run on your code base before and after doing a refactoring. I wish I have something this simple for Java 🙂 See… Read More »

Remove Brother MFC 7640DN “replace drum unit” annoying message

By | December 8, 2019

Brother like any other printer producers what you do perform unnecessary costly replacements to components. We all know the lame affirmation: “quality parameters will no longer be met if producer recommendations are not followed”, but do I really need to replace the drum unit (like 80EUR) of a 200EUR printer after some 1000 pages ?… Read More »