My journey into the GIS world
Most people in software development are familiar with time-aspect of data. Data can have a certain time, like events or a certain period. By now there are good tools and…
Tag: programming
Transformation in your stages are just functions
An often used concept in data warehouses is the concept of ‘stages’, where data moves from one stage to another. Stages are called often called ‘bronze’, ‘silver’ and ‘gold’. Data…
Schema registries in Kafka and how they’re used
Short introduction: if you use Kafka you’re most likely dealing with various kind of messages. You store the schema of each message in a schema-registry. But how does Kafka use…
Using OpenAPI in Scala
Modern software development is for a large part integrating with other software. To integrate with other software you use the API software you want to integrate with. An API can…
Using the Woocommerce API
If you want to host your own webshop, Woocommerce is a popular option. You can install it as plugin to WordPress. Using plugins your shop can be extended with different…
Elixer and Phoenix Liveview
A car as metaphor, and featuring yet another introduction to functional programming, yet I liked reading This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right? on Elixir, and Phoenix Liveview, a…
Low-code en RAD
Onlangs heb ik me geregistreerd bij een van de vele crowdfunding-platforms die er inmiddels zijn, Collin Crowdfund. Inherent aan zulke platforms moet je een flow van formulieren door. Dat werkte…
Back and forth from Scala to Java
For over two years I’ve programmed nearly exclusively in Scala on the backend, while using mostly JavaScript and TypeScript on the frontend. Before that I mostly used Java for over…
Using Swagger to access your secured api
Swagger is a great way make your api accessible. Not only documentation is provided, but your users, your co-developers or your self can try out your api. But what if…
Programming education and smart contracts
While looking browsing at Quora I found this posting by a professor in New Zealand on why certain programming languages are taught at universities while being suboptimal for teaching. Reminds…