To open "Datamodeler.app", you need to install Rosetta. Do you want to install it now?Dec 1, 2025·1 min read
setting up Bitwarden SSH Agent for VS Code on MAC OSRecently I switched over from Roboform to Bitwarden as my passwordvault. The main advantages why I did this: I use a vaultwarden docker image on my DS420j NAS Vaultwarden is completely free I can uMar 12, 2026·1 min read
a trip down memory laneI cannot however publish a blog post where our friend Joel is mentioned without reflecting on the relationship I had with him. The first time I met Joel was at the OGH (now NLOUG) conference APEX-World in Zeist. I think it was the last time the confe...Oct 11, 2023·1 min read
Pronounceable password generator in PL/SQLHow often do I need to generate a password for one of my database users and colleagues? Here is how I do that. function auth_pwgen return varchar2 is l_pos integer; l_pw varchar2(100); l_c varchar2(100) := 'bcdfghjklmnprstvwz'; --consonants ...Nov 2, 2022·1 min read
OCI connections to multiple Autonomous Transaction Databases in the Oracle Always Free cloudI still use PL/SQL developer to work in our Oracle Databases. It is a tool I’ve been using for years and old habits seldom die.. In fact Pl/SQL developer is the only sound reason I have parallels desktop (nowadays: UTM) installed on my Mac. PL/SQL d...Oct 8, 2019·2 min read
The kanban game for developers and business-analystsIt was March 2018 when Jasper Alblas and Frans Jacobs introduced me to a nice way of explaining the advantages of Kanban within a Scrum environment. In the Agile world, Kanban and Scrum have been seen as separate frameworks/practices, but as we all k...May 18, 2019·1 min read
making https (webservice) requests from PL/SQL without a walletWhile developing the application for my kscope15 presentation I discovered that my Oracle XE database is unable to handle the certificate for Linked-in. This has to do with the algorithm used to sign the Linked-in certificate. Oracle XE 11 has a bug ...Jul 9, 2015·3 min read
