Open Source Blog Archive

Aug 8

Visualize JavaScript code quality and code coverage with Sonar

It is hard to imagine a web project without JavaScript code today. JavaScript is an easy to learn and very performant script language. In the past we have used JavaScript…

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…

Mai 26

Solr as search engine for OpenCms

Matching the time of my talk at this years OpenCms Days we released our module for integrating Solr with OpenCms. A few days have passed now and we had the…

Mai 20

Being Open Source instead of just Open-Sourcing or Open Source is not just about the license

Open Source is not just about available sources or certain licenses. Successful Open Source projects have a community that matters, not just users, strong leaders that listen and still communicate…

Mai 17

OpenCms Days 2011 in retrospect

From May 9 2011 to May 10 the third OpenCms Days took place in Cologne. The topic of the conference was “The OpenCms 8 User Experience”, targeting the release of…

Mai 4

Open Source Anwendungen für die Community

Synyx entwickelt bereits seit Jahren Anwendungen und Programme auf Basis von Open Source. Rund 20 Mitarbeiter entwickeln, optimieren und leben Open Source Anwendungen. Denn wer Open Source Solutions programmiert, lebt…

Apr 8

Maven and OpenCms

I previously mentioned that setting up a development environment for OpenCms can be quite hard. Besides our Netbeans module we are using a custom maven plugin for some time now.…

Feb 24

Solr Summit Frankfurt

I just returned from Solr Summit in Frankfurt, a half day mini conference about Solr, the search server based on Apache Lucene. It has been a really worthwile event with…

Feb 14

Synyx MessageSource: Load your i18n messages from database

A while ago we wanted to store internationalisation for a project in database to allow (a subset of) users to create and update internationalisation using the application itself. When we…