Distributed computing is the challenge of today. At the GOTO Amsterdam 2018 conference there was quite some talk about it. But also the practices needed to build and operate these…
The Play framework is a pretty popular web application framework that you can use to build web applications in Scala or Java. One of the building block is the Action,…
The cake pattern is an important pattern to do dependency injection in Scala. It is explained in various blog posts on the web, for example by Jason Arhart, by Mark Harrison and…
ElasticSearch is a great Java based search solution. When I started researching it, I became very enthusiastic about it. The search capabilities that come out of the box, combined with…
Many OS X users know the productivity tool Alfred. Alfred is far more than a quick launcher that will let you operate your computer with the use of your keyboard. Recently…
When working on a Pebble watch face on OS X, I like to use Xcode as development environment. I like to have autocompletion and the ability to jump to the…
After a year long wait my Pebble smart watch finally arrived. A lot of good reviews have been written about it by other people, and I don't really want to…
The iPad has proven to be a very useful device, that enables me to do a lot of things in a very efficient way. However, I always thought that tablets…
