In my previous blogpost about building an Engineering Culture I briefly touched upon the pillar “Knowledge Driven”. This pillar is really about culture. About behaviour and about mindset. You can only have a knowledge driven culture if people are willing to share knowledge, and if people are open to receive it. In many companies there […]
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Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
January 20, 2023 
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I am an outlook user. A heavy outlook user. ANd there is something that is bothering me. The [External Tag in front of every message I get from an external email address (which is almost all my email) Don’t get me wrong. I understand it. There is so much phishing and spoofing going on that […]
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January 19, 2023 0 Comments
In my previous blog post I talked about Engineering Culture and how important it is to embrace the fact that you need to behave like a software company. In this blog post I want to dive a little bit deeper in to an aspect of the pillar “Empowering Operating Model”. When it comes to the […]
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January 17, 2023 0 Comments
In 2011, Marc Andreesen made an often quoted statement “Software Is Eating the World”. Now, about 11 years later I think we can all agree on the fact that this is true and every company has become a software company. Ok ok ok, I agree, there are some exceptions. The bakery, the butcher or the […]
Continue readingEmbrace chaos to achieve stability
April 29, 2022 Comments Off on Embrace chaos to achieve stability
Date: 29 april 2022/25 may 2022Location: Porto, Portugal/Antwerp, Belgium, Utrecht, OnlineEvent: NDC Porto/Techorama Belgium / Techorama NL , AllDayDevOpsDuration: 60 minutes AbstractWhat do you do in case of a cyber attack? And a natural disaster? The absence of a person? Or, more concrete. What happens if the network is down, your data center is not […]
Continue reading Using the GitHub Container Registry with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
September 22, 2020 Comments Off on Using the GitHub Container Registry with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Last week I wanted to try the GitHub container registry as an alternative for Azure Container Registry. Since many things are moving towards GitHub this seemed a good idea. The plan I wanted to execute was as follows:* Build a Docker Container with GitHub Actions* Push a Docker Container to the GitHub Container Registry* Pull […]
Continue reading Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
March 23, 2020 Comments Off on Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
Just like almost any other blog writer, I also want to divert a little bit from my normal topics to write about this pandemic that hits us all. COVID-19 or Corona. Just like almost every other country in the world, my family and I are also bound to our house. That means, working from home, […]
Continue reading Creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps with your own ServicePrincipal
February 26, 2020 Comments Off on Creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps with your own ServicePrincipal
A while ago, I blogged about creating an Azure Container Registry Service Connection in Azure DevOps, using the UI. In short, when you don’t have direct permission on the Azure subscription, the UI in Azure DevOps blocks you from creating a service connection, because there is no manual way of doing that. My previous post […]
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- Knowledge Driven Culture
- Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
- Embrace chaos to achieve stability
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
The Road to ALM 