Posts
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Swift-ly Moving Forward
Apple's Swift language is getting ready for prime time.
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Making of Solita Rooms - our in-house meeting room scheduling system
How Solita Rooms was made and what kind of challenges were faced during the implementation.
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All aboard the open data train
Thoughts on how we designed and implemented the Open Rail Data RESTful API.
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Is there an optimal quad tree out there?
Quad tree is a fun tree structure that is relatively easy to implement. Tree size and bucket size can affect tree performance, so optimizing the latter might pay off in critical contexts.
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EuroClojure 2015
We went to EuroClojure 2015 - this is a brief(ish) description of the presentations given there
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Interfaces and components in a functional world... or "how I stopped worrying and let Clojure into my heart"
Functional programming encourages the use of data and functions instead of creating new concrete types.
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Virusscanner as a REST service
How to setup a open source virusscanner as a REST service.
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About the quality and fun!
Software quality is important. But let's not forget the fun!
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Intelligent practices of software testing
Intelligent practices of software testing creates guildelines to make software testing more context responsive
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Enterprise VPN insecurity
Analysis of a enterprise VPN solution. There is surprising functionality opening a backdoor to end user's computer. Do you know what your VPN solution actually does?
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Ninja berries – continuous learning and skills development at my workplace
Solita has a policy of fostering educational sessions on company time. This little blog post discusses the arrangement.
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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.
