Roy van Kaathoven

Sep 20Attended Event

Attended Meetup First Steps with Event Sourcing (using Prooph) at MarketRedesign

Sep 09New Blog Post

Slick Recipes

in scala

Working with Slick is a breeze when doing standard data manipulation. However when edge cases are popping up it is hard to find answers in the documentation.

A lot of tips are hidden in Github Issues and answers given in the Gitter channels

In this blog i share some of the things i use in most of my projects which aren't obvious from the documentation.

Jul 13Attended Event

Attended Meetup Reactive Microservices and Streaming at Trifork

May 13New Blog Post

Remap the Bixby Home button on the Samsung S8

in automation

This week i got my hands on a Samsung S8+ and been configuring Tasker to automate my Phone.

The S8 now includes the Bixby which is more-or-less the same as the Google Assistant. Since i preferred the Google Assistant instead of Bixby i now have a button that i don't use.

After searching around i only found that Samsung doesn't allow the Bixby to be remapped using standard functionality. Luckily it can be done with Tasker

Apr 26New Blog Post

Opening gates with Slack and Twilio

in automation

At one of my clients there is a automated barrier blocking the private parking space. The barrier is controlled by calling a phone number which triggers the barrier.

I thought it would be interesting to figure out how to open it with Slack.

Oct 22New Blog Post

Isolating memory leaks in a concurrent system

in csharp

While working on Advanced-Forms i have to deal with various memory issues which arise when running the server application.

The server component of Advanced-Forms is a continuously running background service which can run many different components in parallel at any given moment. Some of these components are third party maintained by other companies or open sources projects like FTP, Mail, Data Conversions, etc..

May 05New Blog Post

Implementing GCM server with Scala and Akka

in scala

I started working on an Android app for the Roboflow project. I have a LG Watch R and i thought it would be handy to be able to send notifications from a flow within Roboflow. So users can easily configure notifications for themselves for the things that matter.

Dec 30New Blog Post

Solving Paper Mazes with Python

in python

Every year just after Christmas there is a quiz game called "De Rooise Kwis" in which a lot of people in Sint Oedenrode participate. This year there were 151 teams.

The quiz consists of questions in a wide range of categories, which can be found here