Using the console on Windows

I tell you a secret: I’m a Windows user. I don’t use OSX, I don’t use Linux, I use Windows. And I tell you something more: I like it 😉 Usually I develop Java or JavaScript applications which perfectly run under Windows, Linux, OSX or what so ever. So developing under Windows is no problem […]

Resizing Vagrant box disk space

Vagrant is a great tool to provision virtual machines! As I’m a passionated Windows user, Vagrant is the weapon of my choice whenever I need to use some Linux-only tools such as Docker. I spinn up a new Linux VM, already configured with the things I need and start working. However, when it comes to […]

VirtualBox crashes with STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

As I’m a passionate Windows user (sorry…), I often use VirtualBox (with Vagrant) to pull up a Linux box to use Docker or some other “Linux-only” stuff. Usually, this works really fine, but today my VirtualBox crashed with a STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND error: One of those mystic error where everything worked like a charm yesterday at 6 […]

Mount Windows folder to Boot2Docker VM

I just stumbled over a post on Stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30864466/whats-the-best-way-to-share-files-from-windows-to-boot2docker-vm) with the question how to mount a Windows folder to a Boot2Docker VM. Although the steps are a little bit confusing, in the end it is not difficult to do. Boot2Docker Boot2Docker is a simple VM to run Docker. The VM will run on VirtualBox and […]

ORA-28001: the password has expired

Today I came about a very annoying exception. After my development setup was running smoothly for the last six months, my application was getting database errors today. I know that I didn’t break something, so the problem had to be somewhere else – and it was: ORA-28001: the password has expired If you install an […]

DeployMan (command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS)

DeployMan Yesterday, I published a tool called DeployMan on GitHub. DeployMan is a command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS and was the software prototype for my master thesis. I wrote my thesis at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, so first of all, I want to say thank you to Thomas Kasemir for the opportunity […]

Presentation of my master thesis

Over the last six months, I wrote my master thesis about porting an enterprise OSGi application to a PaaS. Last Monday, the 21th Juli 2014, I presented the main results of my thesis to my professor (best greetings to you, Mr. Goik!) and to my colleges (thanks to all of you!) at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, […]