ITverket

Setup a Secure Blog with Ghost on DigitalOcean

Tutorial for setting up a secure HTTPS blog running Ghost in a docker container, using Digitalocean as the provider.

Monitor your website with cloud functions

This post was first published on Øysteins personal blog blixhavn.devA while back I noticed that my blog was down, and after some investigation I discovered that it had been

Obstacles in Message Driven Systems

This was first published on Anders' personal blog kofoed.devBuilding distributed systems is fundamentally different from the synchronous world many developers are used to. Using messaging as communication and eventually

devops

How to create DigitalOcean droplets using Doctl on Windows

In this guide I will be walking through the process of setting up a droplet from your own windows computer, using DigitalOcean's API tool Doctl. Knowing how to do this

Fagkveld 21.01.20, Skatten, Tøyen

Julen har rukket å bli et dunkelt minne til tross for at vi fremdeles skriver januar. Stimende ut fra Tøyen T-banestasjon konvergerer ITverkere som en menneskelig utgave av Snake til

Don't Think, Shortening Variable Names

Shortening variable names is a huge waste of time. if(ts.has(t)) { ts.close(); } TS. Tidy Storage. Tennant Summit. The Store. Team Session. What is ts? What is t?

DotJS 2019

Tidlig i desember dro fire ITverkere på den største JavaScript-konferansen i Europa; DotJS. Og den var ikke lokalisert hvor som helst. Konferansen fant nemlig sted i Paris! Kul konferanse og

reisebrev

FrontEnd Con

22.11.19 dro Syver, Thomas og Karl Ivar på konferanse til Warszava i Polen. De tilbrakte helga som turister i byen, før konferansen startet på mandag. Turen ble en

Fagdag: AppSec og OpSec for utviklere

16.november var det duket for en fagkveld med fokus på applikasjonssikkerhet og operasjonssikkerhet for utviklere. DevOps-tankegangen med korte iterasjoner har ført til at utviklere i større grad har ansvar

Are Developers Afraid of Smaller Classes?

Smaller classes seem to make a lot of developers uncomfortable. It seems that the idea of jumping between classes in order to get the whole picture is undesirable, and that

Do the boring stuff

Spending some of your spare time doing boring stuff has several benefits, and it takes less time than you might think.

Fagkveld 24.09.19

NY REKORD! Tirsdag 24.09 arrangerte vi nok en fagkveld, og aldri har vi vært så mange som nå. Da Sindre, Sindre og Ole Andreas satte i gang showet var

clean code

To Lombok, or not to Lombok

If you are reading this, chances are that you already know a little about Project Lombok. Perhaps you love it and is looking for additional information to support your righteous

comments

String comment; //this is a comment

// This is the name of the header private String headerName; /** * Returns the name of the header * @return Header name as a String */ public String getHeaderName() { return headerName; } Have you ever seen comments like these? Are you not grateful for it? Don't you just wish

sommerprosjekt

Sommerprosjekt 2019: Ice

Etter åtte uker er årets sommerprosjekt over. Teamet vårt, bestående av seks studenter fra NTNU og en erfaren teamleder fra ITverket, har i sommer hatt gleden av å sitte hos

node

Building a Node API with stateless authentication

When building an api in Node I suddenly got the need to implement some form of simple authentication. I wanted to be able to create users and have them log

Sommerprosjekt 2019: Fortum Tellier

Nå går sommeren mot slutten og det gjør også vårt prosjekt. I løpet av seks uker har vi, et team bestående av fem studenter fra NTNU, sittet hos Fortum Tellier

java

Bad code, Readable code

Bad code. Words that ring in our developer ears every time we hear it. We all know about it. You have written it. I have written it. We have all

DevOps as an IT consultant

This post was first published on Øysteins private blog blixhavn.dev After learning about Domain Driven Design, DevOps, Lean work or Agile methodologies, it's easy as an IT consultant to

sql

Comparison of NULL values by use of set operators in SQL Server

In this article we will go through a common task of searching a table for a filtering value using various approaches, ending up with the most elegant solution using set based comparison. This way of thinking will then be explored in other common usages, such as joins and MERGE statements.

Plankekjøring i Lyngsalpene.

Torsdag 11. april dro en gjeng toppturentusiaster fra ITverket på skitur til Lyngsalpene i Troms for å nyte noe av det intense, vakre og spennende nydelige Norge har å by

Anti-Patterns from Systems Thinking - Suboptimization

One of the things I learnt from the "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" book by Donella Meadows is a thing called suboptimization. I choose to call this an

Continuous Deployment - the holy grail of DevOps?

This post was first published on Øysteins private blog blixhavn.dev Continuous Deployment is a development strategy central in the DevOps world, and I have for a long time considered

On human intuition, codifying knowledge and resilience

Coming out of Dave Snowden's 2 day workshop on Complexity-Based Design Thinking at DDDEurope 2019, it's easy to get many thoughts spinning in your head, and it definitely takes time

When events become goto-statements

This post was first published on Øysteins private blog blixhavn.dev In a complex software project, decoupling of modules is a necessary measure to avoid a huge spaghetti-like mess of