Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.
So i have acquired myself a cheap Chinese 3.5” LCD display with Resistive Touch from aliexpress. So far so good, but it took me nearly a month to get a working current setup. The ProblemThe chinese vendor i got it from refers to a site…
So just today we all got the “surprising” news, that Apple is really interested in autonomous cars. We all knew it for months, but hey, let’s play along for a second. Further more, after the groundbreaking innovations we’ve just…
FreeBSD is my favorite OS, not just recently but all the way back to 2003 when Linux didn’t cut it anymore for me. Given that Linux has more device drivers available, it also means more bugs, code duplication and generally speaking bad…
Kali Linux is a Penetration-Testing Distro basted on Linux. Most people reading my blog may already know that, but what you might have overheard when you’re not owning an Android-device, there is something called Kali NetHunter Linux,…
If you’re running Liftweb Applications in production, you might either be using Tomcat or Jetty. If you’re using Jetty, you’ve probably stumbled across David Pollak’s jetty.tgz (i don’t find the link anymore). While it is a nice…
I like foursquare‘s libs. If you’re using liftweb a lot (and there is no reason you shouldn’t), then you’ve probably discovered the trove of treasures foursquare is managing in their repositories on GitHub. If you haven’t used Rogue,…
So i’ve been super busy for the past few months. You might have noticed since i didn’t blog. So i’ve been doing a lot of Netty 4 related work. One project amongst those is the Liftweb Netty Integration where David Whittaker and me are…
Today i just want to share a quick Scala goodie. We all know that i love Netty and Scala, so i wanted to write a little Goodie with Scala’s implicits. With Implicits we can wrap transparently around an Object (such as…
After reading this excellent Blogpost about the new Scala Try, i was thinking of how this would come in handy for “flow-control”, but without the StackTrace overhead. The ProblemFlowException(msg: String) extends Exception(msg)1val myE…
As promised on my last Talk in London, i’ve finally outdone myself with our newest piece of code called: The project aims to provide an extensible flow collector written in Scala, using Netty as IO Framework as well as Akka as Messaging…