Blog: Developer Blog

• Mai 28

  Performance tuning Maven-OpenCms builds using PostgreSQL

  Having a newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my machine, I noticed that building the OpenCms project I am currently working on is a very time consuming process: oli@rikit:~/develop/projects/foo$ time mvn…

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• Mai 7

  How to monitor and manage your Java application with JMX

  JMX (Java Management Extensions) provides the infrastructure to support monitoring and management of your Java applications. Resources you manage with JMX are called Managed Beans (MBeans). I want to show…

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• März 23

  "Works on my machine!" – Developing and Testing Continuous Delivery with Vagrant

  I still hear it often in teams, even in agile ones where unit tests, integration tests and continuous integration are integrated in daily work. One team member says it’s working…

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• März 6

  New Homepage with nanoc, Twitter Bootstrap, LESS and Git

  With the redesign of our current homepage there was the chance to re-evaluate our requirements and make pragmatic decisions filling our needs. Our previous websites were always implemented in OpenCms…

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• Nov. 10

  Reasons why I go to Devoxx

  Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is because Devoxx is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be…

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• Nov. 7

  Schöner schaukeln mit Gradle?

  Die Konstruktion qualitativ hochwertiger Software setzt den Einsatz geeigneter Prozesse und Werkzeuge voraus. Von essentieller Bedeutung hinsichtlich der Qualität des Produkts ist der Build-Prozess: eine definierte Folge von Schritten die…

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• Okt. 25

  Make software-projects fit for git

  More and more Projects at our company are taking advantage of distributed and local revision control by using git. So to make a complete software-project fit for git, by not…

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• Okt. 18

  Sending JMS from OracleDB to external ActiveMQ Broker

  After taking over a legacy application of which a huge part of the business logic is formed by triggers and procedures inside an Oracle DB, we faced the task of…

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• Okt. 8

  Testing webapp startup on Jenkins using Maven, Tomcat and Web Driver

  Modern web applications often consist of quite some configuration files that should at least be tested for validity. Think of Spring controller configurations, web application descriptors and the like that…

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