Software development
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Making it lean
Programming is the most known part of software engineering to non software types. A couple of years ago I improved my skills in programming with the hope to improve my software engineering skills. But it took not very long for me to realize, that it takes a lot more to be successful in software engineering. [...]