Developer Blog Archive

Sep 13

Building Android projects with Maven – Part 1: Setup

Building and managing Android projects with maven is not as easy as it could be. So in this blog, I’ll show you how we managed to get it work nicely.…

Sep 2

yammer – Metrics made easy – Part I

Metrics by yammer provides runtime metrics and statistics for all kind of apps you can imagine. A lot of stuff is directly useable out of the box, for example measuring…

Jul 1

Usefulness Ranking of Code Metrics

Static code analysis is one of the more controversial fields of software engineering. “Misleading Bogus!” screamers and “Must not work without it!” pleaders are bashing their heads in like survivors…

Jun 26

Awesome CSS 3 Layouting

At first let me ask you a few questions about developing web applications: How do you create multiple column layouts? How do you make it flexible? How do you solve…

Apr 24

Asynchronous concurrency with vert.x – Part 2

CoffeeScript Vert.x supports JavaScript through the Rhino JavaScript engine. Although JavaScript is a decent language once you get to know it, I prefer CoffeeScript, a language that compiles to JavaScript.…

Apr 18

Acceptance testing at synyx – Part 5

The last few blogs about acceptance-testing focused on setting up a nice and scalable infrastructure to do testing through the (web)-GUI using a Selenium grid. Since we’ve got this running…

Apr 15

Asynchronous concurrency with vert.x – Part 1

Event-Driven Concurrency At synyx, we are looking at vert.x for an upcoming project where we are building a system that will need to scale under load. The tag-line of vert.x…

Apr 12

Liquibase: Our setup in a larger scale project

In this post, we want to show you our Liquibase setup in a larger scale project that we’ve been developing for some time now. Gather Requirements First off, a bit…

Apr 10

Continuous Deployment – Automatic Backup Script

A few words about Continuous Deployment Continuous Deployment is the deployment or release of code to Production as soon as it is ready. (…) The automated process is key because…