Twitter Flattery?
Is Twitter exploring some subtle form of flattery, or do their likeness algorithms need some brushing up?
OpsUnit Motivation and Plan (JUnit for server monitoring)
While the infrastructure for Appjangle and Nextweb has been humming along without any major problems, I have been thinking about ways to improve the long-time stability of the servers. Being lazy in the sense that I dread any tasks, which I believe could be automated, I have created a few
Signing up for Apple Developer Program on Windows
Problem You would like to become an esteemed member of Apple's Developer Program but you dare to do so from a machine running Microsoft Windows using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. After you click on either [Individual] or [Company] as shown below … … you are greeted with an broken
jenkins
Embedding Jenkins in Java App
The Continuous Integration server Jenkins can easily be deployed to any Servlet container or run in standalone mode (see Starting Jenkins). However, sometimes it can be handy to be able to start Jenkins from within another Java application. I like this option since this 'manager' Java app can
jenkins
Jenkins StackOverflow Exception during JUnit Test
Problem The build of a Maven job in Jenkins fails due to a StackOverflowException or a OutOfMemoryException during a JUnit test. Analysis Most likely, there is a bug in your application, which leads to infinite recursion or an infinite allocation in resources. So first try to run your test in
Design Principles for Mobile Apps: (1) Simplicity
Mobile applications are undoubtedly different than traditional desktop applications in many ways. Mostly, we would think of the technical and/or UI limitations that mobile environments impose on application developers. In the following weeks, I will portray three high-level principles for building successful mobile applications, not only considering their limitations
October Links 1
Interesting Links 1st to 10th of October 2012: Welcome to Koding. A new way for developers to get work done. Art.sy Is Mapping the World of Art on the Web - NYTimes.com introduction.js Jasmine BDD in JavaScript William James on Habit | Brain Pickings Obama likes routine!! JSONiq:
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Great tutorial to set up a modern Maven site to document Java projects.
google-web-toolkit
Google Releases Tool J2ObjC to convert Java Source Code into Objective-C Source Code
I love the Google Web Toolkit, a powerful and mature open source library to automatically translate Java Source Code into JavaScript code. While I doubt the merit of using Java to write user interfaces for JavaScript (unfortunately, this is often what the Google Web Toolkit has been advocated for), I
Converting youtube video link to embed link with JavaScript
Videos on youtube usually have a URI such as the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0 These URIs cannot be used to embed the video in an iframe such as the following: In order to work as part of an embedded iframe, youtube video links must be in
jquery
Using JQuery to Detect If on a Mobile Phone
JQuery and/or JavaScript have no native mechanism to determine whether a page is loaded on a mobile phone or not. However, CSS media queries offer this capability. I found the following nice trick on stackoverflow to utilize media queries to help JS/JQuery applications to determine whether they run
Beware of BootstrapCDN :(
A few days ago, I discovered the service BootstapCDN. I really like the idea to serve standard libraries such as JQuery or Twitter Bootstrap through central Content Delivery Networks. Especially since serving libraries through a standard location enables clients to not have to download these libraries at all (if the