The curl cheat sheet to myself
It has been not even a full week building REST style interfaces for the Playmaker Studio mobile platform and I am very annoyed of all the curl guides how to access your REST API with curl. So here is my cheat sheet on this topic. Be aware that the I will update this frequently.
Making a new move – again
After been almost 10 years at SinnerSchrader it’s very confusing for me to be on the move again. On the 1st of December I joined Playmaker Studio after being at gamigo for 18 month.
Playing around with Scala
After some inspiration the last few weeks, I decided to scrape together some spare time and have a closer look at the Scala programming language. This was kind of overdue because I am trying to have a look at new technologies at least once a year. One major challenge is always finding an interesting topic [...]
Mind the gap
It’s sunday and I am fed up, sitting lazy behind my computer and taking a review of the last week. I attended two conferences this week so I am full of new ideas (don’t know if they are good yet) and wan’t to take a closer look on so many topics. The first conference was [...]
nginxing around with WordPress
Some of you may already have noticed, that this blog uses WordPress as blog software. Nothing special about that I guess. As I mentioned before in January/February I moved my website from my old provide to a new one making some significant changes to the blog and it’s infrastructure. I am in the web business [...]
A new home
I just wanted to say, that I am back – at least a kind of The last couple of month I was buried under a sh****** of work since I joined my new employer, but on the other hand side I a lot of fun and it is a very challenging job. The last couple [...]
Contemporary Software Development: Building
The subject of my first post of the series “Contemporary Software Development” will be building. How to build your software project is a decision which is made quite early when you start developing. Unfortunately in a lot of projects this very important topic does not get the appreciation it deserves. On one hand side it’s [...]
Announcing: Contemporary Software Development
It has been some time since my last blog post. But I promise to do better. I am planning a series ob blog post in which I am trying to explain how you should want to develop software nowadays – at least in my opinon. I will try to cover topics like: How to build [...]
Virtual Pages with Tapestry 5
Some of you may know Apache Tapestry 5 already. It’s a very great framework for building web applications. In my opinion you’ll won’t find a framework this mature and production ready very easy. Tapestry 5 covers a wide variety of topics related to the creation of state-of-the-art web applications. So it’s no surprise that Howard [...]
Creating a domain specific language with XML-Schema and JAX-B
Here at scoyo we use the Magnolia CMS to manage our website content. It’s a quite nice tool based on the Content Repository API for Java (JCR) (JSR-170). In this blog post I want to tell you a little more about a small domain specific language, which I created to manage the migration of content [...]