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2011

Lift CometActor with Growl-Style Notifications

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…

Using LiftActor as ORM-Read-Cache

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…

Mapper with PostgreSQL custom types CIDR/MAC

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…

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…

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:…