Posts
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Aurelia.io
Coding with Aurelia JavaScript framework and ECMAScript 6 - right now
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Java and Hipster
First experiences as a new employee of Solita... and some Java Hipsterism
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Microservices FTW
How to boot up and get some feedback fast
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Monster fighter
A developer's guide for surviving a large and long running project.
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When to Refactor
How to maintain the balance between adding new features and refactoring existing code? Here are some rules of thumb for choosing when to refactor and how much.
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Deconstructing a tweet-sized language
140 characters might not seem like much, but it's enough to implement an interpreter for a simple programming language. This post explains how.
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Publishing to Maven Central Repository
The Central Repository is the de facto place for publishing JVM-based open source libraries. Publishing your own libraries there is not hard and it will benefit your users.
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Unit tests, for good
In an opening keynote to Reaktor dev day 2014, Erik Meijer declared unit tests a general waste of time. Mr. Meijer's routine use of overstatement offers a really nice target for nitpicking.
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Simple Deployment Pipeline
It is possible to create a professional deployment pipeline and do Continuous Delivery (CD) with few simple tools. When you remove the hype, CD and DevOps are not magic. I will present a real example from our project to show what can be achieved with a minimal effort by ordinary developers. Quite a lot actually.
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Sharing client-side components with Bower
You need to build an app which uses a certain type of component. You recently built one for another project. Extracting it is a piece of cake but how are you going to share it between the two apps?
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Why infographs have an edge?
I explain 3+1 aspects that make interactive infographs superior to traditional document based reporting.
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Need for Speed, or: What Is (Probably) Coming to the Java VM in a Few Years
There are a bunch of improvements that are currently being investigated for the Java VM and language. Most of them won't make it into Java 9, but maybe a couple of years later we can enjoy them.
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Writing Compact Java with functions and data
Rethinking stylistic issues could help us in dealing with complex problems. Computation is not all about ownership.
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Real World Clojure
You may have heard already that Clojure is great and going to dominate the world this year. But will it? In this article I will dig deep into one of our Clojure projects so that you can see what a real world Clojure project looks like and decide for yourself.
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Communication in library design, a user's perpective
Everyone has encountered a software library that is hard to use. From the designer's perspective, the user can always be educated a bit more, but sometimes user training misses the point.
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Warnings are Errors
You know how to treat compiler errors – just fix them. But what about compiler warnings? Here are some thoughts and suggestions.
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Pimp My REPL
Everyone knows Lisp programmers live in the REPL, and Clojurians are no exception. This is a tour of Clojure libraries and practices that make life in the REPL even more comfortable.
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Developer Garage in Helsinki on 2014-03-05
We are organizing a Coding Dojo at Solita's office in Helsinki.
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Solita Dojo in Helsinki on 2013-10-23
We are organizing a Coding Dojo at Solita's office in Helsinki.
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Clojure world domination 2014
Form follows function in great design. Interestingly we can now eliminate annoying barriers between data, form and function. The Clojure train is accelerating!
