Technology
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Temporal coincidence or news on maven builds
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry about building applications with Apache Maven and where I see the most demanding problems with Maven builds. Coincidentally Jason van Zyl a mastermind behind the Apache Maven Project wrote a series of articles on the blog at Sonartype, which are describing the future road map of [...]
Some thoughts about building
Over the last few days I had some thoughts about building your project. I am using Apache Maven for quite a while now. At my current employer we use Maven for all our components even our learn portal which is build entirely in Adobe Flex, using the Flexmojos. The bottom line is that we have [...]
git-ing around
The last weeks I had some spare time to play around with the Git source control management system. My interest was aroused by a vote on the Apache Tapestry mailing list to migrate the Tapestry Subversion repository into a Git repository. After a little more than a glimpse into the capabilities of Git I am [...]