DISCLAIMER: you guessed it, this is a rant! I am very interested in doing mobile development as a hobby. I started iOS development about a year ago but i stopped after publishing my first iPhone app dzone mobile because i thought that all those AppStore™ and iTunes Connect™ stuff was a pain in the ass […]
Tag: Java
Ruby in Java, Java in Ruby, JRuby or Ruby Java Bridge?
Hosting (J)Rails applications on a high availability Java infrastructure with clusters, loadbalancers and all that shit stuff is great, if you already have it in place. But does running an app on the JRE make it a JRuby application by default? Do you really want to be stuck on JRuby? I really like the idea […]
taming webapp logging with log4j
Logging is an aspect of programming that should follow some simple rules. If I should describe logging for a dictionary it would be something like: “Providing essential information with object introspection at a decent level of output that enables you to look into a running application or providing runtime information for debugging.” But even the […]
Creating a Maven webapp from scratch
Doing a little research for an article about log4j configuration in Java webapps, I decided to use Maven as a sidekick. I already pointed out earlier that my favourite build tool is buildr. The reason I chose Maven is that it has archetypes and that there is a deprecated guide for using such an archetype […]
Buildr – The build system that doesn’t suck
If you are a Java guy like me, you are probably doing a lot of ugly tasks in your everday work. One of these tasks is build management. The Java community tries to tackle builds with standard tools like Ant and “all-in-one” solutions like Maven. Both are based on huge XML configuration files that are […]