At the ANWB people are constantly trying to improve the services they provide. One of these services is to provide traffic information. In the Netherlands the National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information (NDW) provides an enormous database of both real-time and historic traffic data. This data comes from many different sources and is available as open […]
Integrating Flyway In A Spring Framework Application
This post is about how to integrate Flyway into a Spring/JPA application for database schema migration. To skip all the preambles and get straight to the instructions, jump to Project’s Dependencies Set-up Flyway is a database migration tool which helps do to databases, what tools like git/svn/mercurial does for source code…which is versioning. With Flyway you […]
How to Remotely Debug Application Running on Tomcat From Within Intellij IDEA
This post would look into how to tackle and debug issues in scenarios where they only occur in production (or other remote environment) but not in development environment. As anybody who has been in this kind of situation would acknowledge, trying to pinpoint the cause of these kind of “issues” might quickly end up being […]
New features in Axon Framework 2.1
Recently, Axon Framework 2.1 has been released. It comes packed with improvements and some exciting new features. In this post, I’ll briefly iterate of what’s new in this version. Furthermore, we have also scheduled a few workshops and trainings.
Java clients behavior during a split-brain situation in Elasticsearch
In my previous blog post I explained what the split-brain problem is for elasticsearch and how to avoid it, but only briefly spoken about how it manifests. In this post I’m going to expand on what actually happens to your indexing and query requests after the split-brain has occurred. As I’m sure you’re already aware, […]
Apportable (a much better alternative to Phonegap) and AFNetworking 2.0
On October 16th I attended CocoaHeads, an iOS developer meetup that is organized every few months by Peter Robinett of Bubble Foundry and other volunteers. Every time it’s hosted at a different location. It was previously hosted at Spil Games, Xebia and NOS. This time it was hosted at eBuddy. The formula is simple: great […]
Windows Phone 8 – C# vs. Java
Welcome back to another brand new Windows Phone 8 blog! After I explored the UI and checked out the IDE it is now time to take a look at the programming language: C# or “C sharp”. I want to focus purely on the language itself and compare it to the language I know best: Java. […]
Hippo CMS Favorite Folders Plugin
After doing a number of big projects with Hippo CMS, I came up with the idea of creating a plugin. I’m always looking for ways to optimize the user experience as I think user experience is one of the most important parts of a product. Hippo allows you to store your content in a folder […]
Checking return values in Java
The other day I made a stupid coding error. It took me the better part of an hour to track it down. We all have those moments. Blame it on a bad night’s sleep, a brain fart, or perhaps the fact that your colleague at the next desk has been whistling that tune from Gotye’s […]
From the trenches: Rendering Twitter Bootstrap form inputs for Spring-MVC with FreeMarker macros
This is the first entry in a new series of what we hope will become a regular appearance on our Trifork blog: “from the trenches”, with blogs that explain in a no-nonsense just-the-tech fashion how we applied certain tools, technologies, libraries and frameworks in our own projects to solve real-world challenges that we faced while […]