Imagine you are starting to work for a customer who has an existing software system that needs to be extended. On your first day at the customer you want to quickly understand the existing piece of software. So you start your favorite IDE and check out the project from Git or Subversion. You are trying […]
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Author: Philipp Darkow
HTML Canvas
During my holiday I start to read about the HTML5 canvas object which can be used for a variety of graphical presentations or animations. Honestly, I was quite surprised about the possibilities of the canvas element. At first I am going to give a short description about the canvas object. Which is followed by a […]
The Spock Framework
In one of my current projects, I started to play around with Groovy and was fascinated how groovy this language is. I got more curious about the way to perform testing and started googling around a little bit. My google research showed me several frameworks to test groovy applications. One of these frameworks is the […]
Validating epubs
In one of my recent projects, I had to deal with the validation of epubs. Unfortunately there are not many references on this topic on the internet. Therefore I thought it would be good to write a small blog entry about the validation of an epub file. In the first part I want to explain in short […]
Elasticsearch, Spring MVC & Sencha Touch 2 in the Cloud – Part 2
This is the second part of my blog on how to develop an application using Elasticsearch, Spring MVC and Sencha Touch 2. In my previous blog post part 1 I showed and explained which technologies I used to accomplish the connection between the frontend and backend. In addition I presented the steps to connect a […]
Elasticsearch & Spring MVC & Sencha Touch 2 in the Cloud – Part 1
Introduction Welcome to my third blog entry. In this one, I want to show how to connect three different technologies (database, REST service, and a mobile framework) and deploy them into the cloud. Those three technologies are: Elasticsearch (Database) Spring MVC (REST service) Sencha Touch 2 (Client side framework) First, I want to give […]
Performance of native and web-based mobile applications
Intro Hello and welcome to my second blog post :). This blogpost is a summary of my master thesis. The topic of my thesis was the performance of mobile applications. In particular I am going to compare native and web-based applications. But at first I will tell a little bit about me. My name is […]
Meteor – Client & Server Programming in One
In this blog post I want to introduce to you a relatively new JavaScript framework which is called Meteor. The Meteor framework provides the feature to write server and client side code just in HTML 5, Javascript, and CSS. Right now there is just a preview version available (Preview 0.7.0.1), nonetheless this preview version is […]