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Getting a list of week numbers between two dates

Getting a list of week numbers between two dates

Posted on January 8, 2022January 8, 2022 by Mike van Riel
Recently, I was working on a PHP application that needed to show weekly summaries in the period of one month. Then, January came and I found myself looking at 48 weeks instead of the expected 4 to 5. ... Read More
A new talk in the making? (User) Stories for Developers

A new talk in the making? (User) Stories for Developers

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 by Mike van Riel
At Ingewikkeld, we hold internal presentations to share knowledge between us. Recently, it was my turn; I wanted to tell a story, on stories. In our field of Software Engineering, one of the hardest t... Read More
‘master’ has always been a poor branch name

‘master’ has always been a poor branch name

Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 by Mike van Riel
Recently I was scrolling through my twitter timeline when I encountered this tweet by Fabien Potencier: Fabien eloquently describes something that suddenly clicked with me; master has always been a po... Read More
Three ways to switch between views in Blender, without using a NumPad

Three ways to switch between views in Blender, without using a NumPad

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Mike van Riel
I generally work on my laptop a lot, including using Blender, and as most laptops do; this one does not have a NumPad. Most tutorials that you find on the internet presume you do; if you are like me y... Read More
Designing stories in (roleplaying) games

Designing stories in (roleplaying) games

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Mike van Riel
Some time ago my friend Jhon and I spoke through WhatsApp after having spent an enjoyable evening in a café. There we dwelled on various topics including one of our favourites: Dungeons and Dragons, ... Read More
Shape, Form and Detail: What developers could learn from drawing techniques

Shape, Form and Detail: What developers could learn from drawing techniques

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel
When you are like me and love practising your art as a developer then it hurts to build something only to throw it away later on. Many books, articles and opinions centre around the notion of good cod... Read More
Quick-tip: using kubectl when you manage multiple Kubernetes clusters

Quick-tip: using kubectl when you manage multiple Kubernetes clusters

Posted on February 15, 2019March 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel
Kubectl has this great feature of ‘contexts’ which allow you to switch between clusters or even namespaces within a cluster. But how do you go about adding contexts to your version of kube... Read More
Kubernetes: Unexpected 502 errors when rolling out a new ReplicaSet

Kubernetes: Unexpected 502 errors when rolling out a new ReplicaSet

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Mike van Riel
The other day I was working on migrating a platform at a client from Virtual Machine based deployments using Ansible to Container-based deployments using Kubernetes. The whole migration went smooth un... Read More
phpBenelux 2019 – Friday

phpBenelux 2019 – Friday

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Mike van Riel
Last week was the 10th edition of phpBenelux; and for me, it was the 8th time I had been there. From the first one to the 10th one is quite awesome to be a part of and in those 10 years, the spirit of... Read More
The WeCamp Experience

The WeCamp Experience

Posted on February 1, 2019February 4, 2019 by Mike van Riel
Disclaimer: I have been involved with the organisation of WeCamp for the past 6 years. The WeCamp Experience. In these past few years this has been my best description for what WeCamp is. It is incred... Read More
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