Internal DSLs in Scala
The language Ruby is very extendible, making the language very suitable for designing internal DSL’s – custom languages for domain, or single purpose as you could call it. Togetter with…
False sense of security in https
Like most Internet users, I use https a lot. Whenever I login to a, say, my bank, Firefox shows a nice picture of the bank and a message the communication…
Scala and Twitter update
Recently wrote about a presentation on the interesest in Scala of tech-lead at Twitter. On another site a Twitter developer wrote half a year ago that several people at his…
Distributed software with JGroups
JGroups A distributed application, where nodes of the application communicate with each other over a LAN using UDP. Each nodes discovers other nodes automatically, when a node crashes or shuts…
Lessons learnt using JBoss 5 clustering
Last week I spent some time getting clustering to work using JBoss 5.0.0 GA. I made a few mistakes and I thought I share them – even though they were…
Scala and twitter
By stumbled on a presentation by API lead of Twitter on Scala. For a moment I hoped Twitter was developed, but the language used at Twitter is Ruby. The speaker…
Frustation on JBoss
For some application I need a notion of ‘shared state’ within a cluster of computers within a network. The software will have to run on JBoss. Yesterday I had successfully…
Flex, Spring and Java
Last year I worked with a collegue on a software project. As I architect I set up a backend. As frontend technology we used flex. As backend technology, we used…
Combining Flex and Scala using Liftweb and BlazeDS
I wanted to setup a sample project that uses Flex and Scala. I followed the excellent tutorial on FlexOnRails: Integrating Flex, BlazeDS, and Scala/Lift. The tutorial helps a lot explaining…
Pattern in RIA
The Flex framework is getting more and more populair, and other similar RIA-frameworks as JavaFX and Sliverlight get a lot of attention. Some people see Flex as a alternative for…