There are 4 articles written in March, 2018

This past weekend I was playing around on some pet projects and wanted to get up and running quickly. My initial reaction was to reach for a Vagrant box provisioned with Ansible. After all, that’s what I’ve been using for a really long time now.

Connecting to MySQL 8

on March 24, 2018. in Software, Development. A 1 minute read.

I’ve used recently PHPDocker.io to generate a set of Docker files for a pet project and it had the option to use MySQL 8 and of course I went with that. The problem was when I wanted to connect to the database that was on this MySQL 8 server.

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Bounded contexts and subdomains

on March 20, 2018. in Programming, Development, Blablabla. A 5 minute read.

Back in October last year I wrote that I thought I understood bounded contexts, what they are and why we need them. Ever since realizing that a bounded context is a boundary of how a business sees a specific subject within a section of that business, learning anything and everything DDD became a lot easier.

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A weekly to-do

on March 08, 2018. in Blablabla. A 4 minute read.

About a year ago I listened to a ThatPodcast episode where Dave and Beau talked about bullet journalling. I found the idea of it appealing, but over the next few months I just couldn’t find a bullet journal in any of the (book)stores I went to. As time passed so did my interest in this. After all, I was getting along without such a system just fine. My life isn’t that crazy busy, 7-8 hours of sleep, 7-10 hours of work work, and the rest is up for grabs — hanging out with my wife Senka (her name translates to Shadow, how cool is that?), reading, writing, cooking, open source, whatever.

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