Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.
If you read my Twitter-feed, you’ll probably notice me ranting endlessly about Apple. Yes, those nice guys that sell iPods and Macs, they fuck everything up these days. But let me back up a little, since my story begins in 2004.…
Since i am currently intrigued by Erlang for a special project, i thought i look into Actor Performance. I found an interesting Post by Paul Keeble comparing Erlang with Scala Actors. I also found an Akka-Benchmark, but it was outdated…
So my first Open-Source-Community-Christmas-Present (or OSCCP) is for the Akka and Wowza-Community. Yesterday i found a nice way to use Scala inside the Wowza Media Server. It’s a Streaming-Server like Red5, but it works better. It can…
You have a successful company, employ a handfull of people, make enough money to not have to worry about where your food is coming from and how you’re going to pay your rent. Yes, it sounds nice. But then suddenly your grandma dies,…
So i always wanted some real-time way of letting my users know what’s up. Coming from the request-cycle world, this means a lot of queueing and storing and retrieving. Just for clarification, this is also again a Beginner Howto for…
I’ve been reading a lot lately about how people switch back from Scala to Ruby, since they often fail to adapt to the way of thinking required to make Scala or partially Liftweb scale to the level they want. I will write a post about…
This is just a quick one, since i’ve already gotten 3 mails about how i used PostgreSQLs CIDR and MAC Types. It’s pretty easy, here are the two classes, basically treat it like strings. Haven’t come around yet to implement own query…
Today i held my talk at the Scala LiftOff 2011 in London. It was a very interesting event and i’ve met lots of interesting People. Before this event i could hardly imagine myself presenting, but i hope i did my job to everybody’s…
A few weeks ago, i’ve written an article on How Liftweb changed my view of Web-Applications. Well since i am one lucky duck, i’ve gotten invited as a Speaker to the Scala LiftOff 2011 London by David Pollak which will occur from 13th to…
This will explain, how you can keep your own changes on top of somebody elses git-repository. We will utilize git rebase for this. Here i’ll use a bogus project which does not exist, but you can paraphrase from it. First you clone the…