Tom Geudens

Halle, Belgium

Areas of Expertise:

  • Application Development NetKernel
  • HPUX Administration
  • Linux Administration
  • Oracle Administration
  • VMWare Administration
  • IT CostManagement
  • IT Configuration Management
  • IT Asset Management
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
At the age of 15, Tom Geudens' parents gave him a choice. Either become a baker or go into IT. That Christmas Santa brought a MSX homecomputer, the choice was made. At twenty and with a Bachelor in IT under his belt, he joined the IT department of Colruyt, a Belgian retailer specialized in 'Lowest Price' and doing this through automation. Recently he set up his own IT consultancy company, Elephant Bird Consulting. He has worked with technologies from PL/1 through HPUX and Linux, and battled distributed applications development and configuration management issues.

Tom blogs at:
http://practical-netkernel.blogspot.com/

the nature of ducks

May 04 2012

There is a saying that goes like this ... if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are good that it is a duck. That does of course not keep the animal from being 10 feet tall, but even then it probably is… read more

logging

April 20 2012

It has been brought to my attention that I can write posts here on practically anything  that is closely or remotely linked to NetKernel and even IT in general. Today I want to discuss something with you that has been a thorn in my side for years. Logging.Some 19 years… read more

troubleshooting

March 23 2012

Halfway through the week I realised that I might have overreached myself just a little by promising to deliver the future and then most of the fun I had this week was still to come.So, I'll postphone the future to next week and give you a short troubleshooting tip this… read more

space listing

March 16 2012

I remember being disappointed when I learned that an asteroid belt is nothing like what I knew from videogames (also an excellent song by Lana Del Rey), where you have to maneuver your ship between rocks with hardly any space between them. The truth is that you can pass through… read more

Wayback Machine

February 24 2012

Have you ever taken a look at the Wayback Machine? In these days of the fast and the furious internet too few of us take time to look back at how things were in the not so distant past. It may therefore be of interest to you to know that the more… read more

Time of the Tree

February 17 2012

Before I discovered NetKernel, my physical library consisted of a copy (= immutable representation) of the LOTR books as well as everything Stephen King had written up to that point (I actually learned English from reading "The Tommyknockers" over and over again, so blame him if my English is far… read more

TRL

February 09 2012

I've had some feedback that I worry too much about even-toed ungulates, so this week I'll play it safe and give a short example of the newest TRL - Text Recursion Language feature.Now, TRL is itself a recent addition to the NetKernel toolkit and the little sister of XRL - XML… read more

Webcast: NetKernel Batteries
August 28, 2012
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Batteries included is one of those catchphrases that has long left the humble origins and is now applied to almost every new development in IT. The questions one often forgets to ask are: Do they fit...

Webcast: ROC'ing the world
August 07, 2012
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Resource Oriented Computing and it's implementation NetKernel are in danger of becoming a ten-year old overnight sensation. In this webcast Tom Geudens, author of Resource-Oriented Computing with NetKernel...

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