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Thu 05 July 2018

Blog

Helping my dad

For many years my dad has collected all kinds of stuff like stamps, coins and old useless screws and bolts. However things got serious when my grandmother died in 1990 when he got home with her collection of memorial prayercards. Of course losing his...

Wed 15 February 2017

Blog

Key relay new IETF standard for transferring secure domain names

This blogpost was originally published here. As a regular reader of my blog (if not: shame on you!) you'll notice this in the wording as it was moderated and translated by our communications department. However if you have found the easter egg let me...

Fri 14 October 2016

Blog

Jmeter as JUnit tests (and integrating them in a CI build)

I use JMeter a lot for creating functional tests. These (unit)tests mostly exists of testing REST APIs against a running application. Why? There must be some other tool for it, right? I know, however I simply know how to use it, so I had it up and...

Thu 30 June 2016

Blog

Why I wrote the FOAAS erlang client

While my FOAAS erlang client is shaping up very nicely I thought it was time to write down why I wrote the client in the first place. I was looking for a small project to take on with a few goals in mind: Create a Docker image for erlang development....

Tue 28 June 2016

Blog

Key relay: keeping the DNSSEC chain intact during transfers

This blogpost was originally published here. As a regular reader of my blog (if not: shame on you!) you'll notice this in the wording as it was moderated and translated by our communications department. However if you have found the easter egg let me...

Sun 22 May 2016

Blog

Validating XML with multiple XSDs in Erlang

Last few years I've been working on a IETF document that describes an EPP extension for transporting DNSSEC key material using the EPP protocol (See the datatracker from the IETF for more information. I've also been learning Erlang for the last 2,5...

Mon 21 December 2015

Blog

Where to start debugging the Erlang VM

Ok we have a production erlang system up and running, but is is leaking memory... wait Erlang doesn't leak memory but processes. There is a talk about it from Berard Dugga and there is one slide that tells it all. I copied the slide here as a note to...

Thu 30 July 2015

Blog

Counting lines of code for Erlang

Thinking that there already was some information available on howto count the lines of code in Erlang I ended up here. > Does anyone know of an open source tool (hopefully without output in > English) that counts lines of Erlang code? grep, wc and find...

Wed 29 July 2015

Blog

Setting an exit code with JMeter in command line mode

I have been using JMeter lately for some functional testing of a REST interface. Why JMeter? Well simply because I know how to use it. However I wanted to run the tests in the JMeter commandline mode and use the exit code as an indication the...

Mon 15 June 2015

Blog

Enable IPv6 in Erlang

By default Erlang does not work for IPv6. The Erlang Manual is an excellent reference to get started. Also there is a (relative older) talk by Kenji Rikitake that proved to be very useful in understanding IPv6 in Erlang. Create a conf/erl_inetrc file...