The archives.

Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.

2011

A polyglots tail - My Scala LiftOff Talk

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…

Scala LiftOff 2011 London

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…

Keeping track of git repos with your changes on top

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…

How Liftweb changed my view of Web-Applications

First i want to talk a little bit about my Journey with web frameworks, since i’ve used quite a number of them, namely Django, Rails, Tapestry5, Wicket, CakePHP (lol), Play, Merb (my favorite for Ruby) and of course Liftweb. It all…

Coinmines - a Bitcoin Mining Pool Frontend

Today i finally found some time to do a little work on my project called CoinMines. CoinMines is an Open Source Web-Frontend for PoolServerJ and pushpool. Pooled mining is the process of hashing the transactions that occur in the…

println - a custom made suit

Since i published println, i’ve had a hand full of people asking me, why it is so minimalistic, why i didn’t implement more options and so on. Since most of the people were open to my view of things, i wanted to write a bit about it, so…

println - My new Blogging Software

Yesterday i finally finished writing version 0.1 of my blogging software called println, today even 0.2 hit github. Also i have moved this blog from Nesta CMS to println just now. ;) I am basically just pasting my README.md here:…

PowerDNS with Ruby Datamapper

Today i got asked on twitter on how i did my PowerDNS Setup with DataMapper, so i thought “why not make a post out of it?”. Anyway, the code is pretty straight forward. DNS ZoneIn my Setup, i have 2 different Models for DNS Names, one…

Bandwidth-tests with my Juniper J2320 Router

The Juniper J2320 is a modular router for enterprises running desktops, servers, VoIP, CRM/ERP/SCM applications. It offers three PIM slots for additional LAN/WAN connectivity and has all the basic licenses for BGP, OSPF…