Tuesday, July 12, 2016. Peeking into the future with RDP. One aspect of reactive demand programming. That sets it apart from other reactive programming models is its support for optimistically working with the predicted future states of signals. Think about a signal that carries the current time in seconds, that you want to display on screen as a clock. The screen should update close to the full second. But why should this be? Predictions are often wron.

This week I will be attending LibreCon 2017. One of the largest international events on open source technologies. It will be held on 19 and 20 October in Santiago de Compostela.

Recently I had the treat of listening to two Layer 3 routing protocol maestros when the CTO of the startup Viptela. Interestingly, the first time I had ever heard of Khalid or Ivan was through the Cisco Press books that they each authored.

Notes on Browsing the Web with Firefox. At 13 Aug, 2015. At 17 Jun, 2015. At 9 Jun, 2015. Finding a Software Engineering Job Abroad. At 12 May, 2015. Using Immutable Objects for Persistence in Java. At 21 Mar, 2015. I am a programmer living in the Netherlands with a background in math and computer science. Right now I am working as a software engineer at bol. Background image by Ugur Bektaş.

Echoing Packets With Snabb Switch. Just for fun, here is some simple Snabb Switch example code to retransmit every packet that is received on a set of Ethernet ports.

MQTT on Juniper devices with Junos 16. MQTT on Juniper devices with Junos 16. For decades, syslog and snmp traps have been extensively used to receive event notifications from devices. It typically required an operator to configure the event category and severity level on the devices and where to send the events to. Chapter 2 in Juniper Extension Toolkit API Guide. Second, install a suitable MQTT cli.