Analyzing beet results with groovy
The recent weeks I have been playing around with grails. When working with grails you have to learn groovy as well. Sometimes I am just amazed by the easiness of doing things with groovy. That is why I...
View ArticleCreating a w3c validated rss feed using Rome and spring 3
For my current customer I had to create an rss feed. In the java domain you immediately grab Rome to do the job. There was a catch. My customer wants (with good reason) to have feeds validated by the...
View ArticleCreating a sample for axon using flex and parsley
The last weeks or maybe even months, I have spent time getting to understand the Axon Framework created by Allard. Axon is a framework that can help developers created a scalable and maintainable...
View ArticleUpgraded wordpress and the atahualpa theme
I have just upgraded the wordpress software to version 3. It all seemed to work fine. However I noticed errors in the archive pages. Therefore I wanted to upgrade to the latest and greatest atahualpa...
View ArticleAn evening on the Go
Last Thursday (July 22nd, 2010) Rob Pike, a Principal Engineer at Google, gave a talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference. In this talk he stated that established languages such as C++ and Java are...
View ArticleMy first steps with Gradle: creating a multi module java web project and...
I am a experienced maven user. Sometime I love it, sometimes I hate it. I like it a lot better than ant, but in some situation you would like maven to be easier and more descriptive. The past year...
View ArticleLearning Mongodb
One of the technical fashionable terms is NoSQL. That is not really the reason why I wanted to have a look at it, but still it is a good reason to at least have an understanding of what it is. The...
View ArticleStill learning MongoDB
Some days a go I wrote a blogpost about Learning Mongo. Of course I did not stop learning. As a good habit, I wrote down the next things I learned and played around with. That is what this blogpost is...
View ArticleRecap of the year 2010
The new year has started, with it comes one of the last opportunities to look back at 2010. So what happened, what did I try out, what did I like and what didn’t I like. I also want to have a short...
View ArticleDeployments with Git and Bash on a Mac
I am creating a number of websites based on wordpress. Up till now I was just hacking the server and hoping that a backup was in place. At a certain moment I accidentally broke the .htaccess file. I...
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