Learning styles: Activist vs. Pragmatic vs. Reflector – What is your style?

By | October 28, 2019

Dear Reader, continuing the idea of the last post, you can find the characteristics of the other three learning styles developed by Honey and Mumford, based on Kolb’s theory in the following paragraphs. Activists You are an activist if you actually learn something by doing, by putting into practice. In other words, activists get their… Read More »

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition vs #Fintech

By | October 3, 2019

Like a true Star Trek fan I have my lists: this is one of most complete compilation of the “Ferengi Rules of Acquisition”. I swear they apply in the real Business World, almost to the letter 🙂 Sadly we can see behaviours that follow the rules also in #Fintech, Banking and Social Media companies. So… Read More »

The Theorist

By | September 22, 2019

Today, I am presenting you the theorist learning style. This is my dominant learning style. I was surprised to learn a lot about myself when I did the test and discovered the features of this style. Of course, it is not all or nothing. If I/you have a dominant learning style, it does not mean… Read More »

Own your MIND!

By | September 9, 2019

Own your mind! According to the promise for a series of mind-related posts, here comes the first with a command: Own your MIND! If you think that it is easy, you might be either lucky to have been actually dealing with your Mind or blissfully ignorant and/or unaware of the tricks the mind can play… Read More »

Hooked on the blogging habit

By | August 30, 2019

Dear Reader, Since my first book review posted on this blog last year, I have been dealing with my newest hobby: the MIND. For me, the mind is the energetic non-physical entity that encompasses thoughts, feelings, internal beliefs, and the personal interpretation of reality. Thus, for me, mind is synonymous with the soul/spirit/other similar term.… Read More »

Recenzie: Trilogia Sexului Rătăcitor / Vremeș, Cristina, București: Humanitas : 2019

By | August 25, 2019

De curând am terminat de citit o carte românească despre care vreau să vă povestesc pe scurt. Este scrisă de o autoare contemporană, Cristina Vremeș. Ea prezintă superb conflictul și relația mamă-fiică marcată de România secolului 20. Cartea este scrisă într-un limbaj specific, pe care nu pot să mi-l imaginez tradus, sau având același efect… Read More »

Banking 2.0 or the online revolution #Monese #fintech

By | February 22, 2020

My new collector passion seems to be about new challenger bank accounts 🙂 Yes, now is the turn for Monese. My third online bank after #Revolut and #TransferWise. As I already mentioned in a previous post, banking 2.0 is here. Enrollment is very easy with a video based verification and with a simple upload of… Read More »

How RomArg “helped” me to change my domain register to @namecheap ?

By | December 8, 2019

A name registrar is that sort of service provider everybody needs at some point when they get serious about their online presence and want to have their own identity thus domain. Basically from the times when Internet was young their main function is to keep that record of who owns a name and to broadcast… Read More »

#Healthcheck for #golang #microservices

By | July 14, 2019

One of the important paradigm change in moving away from monolith application to a cloud of micro-services is how to keep all that interconnected could functioning. A monolith enterprise application usually runs in an application container so a lot of time you are using the container monitoring features to make assumptions about the heath of… Read More »

#RedHat #JBoss and #Artemis dead-letter queue issue

By | July 14, 2019

After migrating from ActiveMq to the embeded JBoss EAP Artemis messaging server ( see link ) I was getting the following error related to the dead message queue (the default queue where messages that failed to be processed end up). 10:21:04,620 WARN [org.wildfly.iiop.openjdk] (ServerService Thread Pool — 7) WFLYIIOP0111: SSL has not been configured but… Read More »