There is something going wrong in the organization I am currently part of an onsite project, yet I can’t get my head around the specifics. This very large governmental organization is growing agile initiatives all over the IT department. Development teams are having fun talking to their customers and are trying to create the best solutions to […]
Setting up PWM as a password recovery tool for OpenLDAP
A running LDAP implementation without a password recovery service for users can be a real hassle for system administrators, in our case every time when a user forgets his/her password the only way to reset/change it was to go to the system administrator let him fix it. As a solution for this problem we stumbled […]
Pen and Paper Vs. Sketching Tools
Quite a few people have asked me over the years why I, as an interaction designer, do not use some of all the sketching and prototyping software that is out there, and why I still draw by hand despite the availability of all of these really smart and practical tools. Here’s why: When I […]
Brightcenter, the multi-user classroom solution for educative app(lication)s
Tablets inside the classroom For years now, PC/Desktops have been present in the classroom providing children and students digital learning environments. These learning environments are helping the teachers by providing interactive learning aids where children and students can independently work and learn. In primary schools, classrooms are filled with just a couple of PCs in […]
Scrum: Just follow the solutions provided below!
Doing Scrum is easy! Just follow and implement checklist below and everything will go well, right? Deliver in cycles of two to six weeks Work in a team sized six plus or minus three Every day stand together answering what was done since the last standup and what will be done before the next The […]
Lessons learned how to do Scrum in a fixed price project
As a Scrum Master my opinion on doing Scrum in combination with a fixed price, fixed functionality and fixed deadline is somewhat tricky to grasp. However, it still common that in many projects fixed price is just simply the norm. For instance, this is often the case in public tenders for government or education institutions […]
Ansible – Simple module
In this post, we’ll review Ansible module development. I haven chosen to make a maven module; not very fancy, but it provides a good support for the subject. This module will execute a maven phase for a project (a pom.xml is designated). You can always refer to the Ansible Module Development page. Which language? The […]
Ansible – Example playbook to setup Jenkins slave
As mentioned in my previous post about Ansible, we will now proceed with writing an Ansible playbook. Playbooks are files containing instructions that can be processed by Ansible, they are written in yaml. For this blog post I will show you how to create a playbook that will setup a remote computer as a Jenkins […]
Bash – A few commands to use again and again
Introduction These days I spend a lot of time in the bash shell. I use it for ad-hoc scripting or driving several Linux boxes. In my current project we set up a continuous delivery environment and migrate code onto it. I lift code from CVS to SVN, mavenize Ant builds and funnel artifacts into Nexus. […]
Ansible – next generation configuration management
The popularity of the cloud has taken configuration management to the next level. Tools that help system administrators and developers configure and manage large amounts of servers, like Chef and Puppet, have popped up everywhere. Ansible is the next generation configuration management. Ansible can be used to excute tasks on remote computers via SSH so […]