For one of our projects we wanted to automate javascript concatenation/minification/tests and incorporate it into our maven build. While there are a number of maven plugins for those tasks, I’ve found that depending on another technology offered so much more and basically ended up integrating Grunt into our maven build. Grunt is a task runner […]
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Creating charts with C3.js
Everybody remembers that project where you need to display some data in a chart. When you select a library to create these charts you will obviously have a few requirements. One of the requirements will probably be that the charts must look good to impress your customer and if they don’t look the way you […]
Internationalization with AngularJS
Many web applications need to support multiple languages. The process of building in this support in a piece of software can be split in two parts: Getting it technically ready to support multiple languages/regions, and getting it ready for a particular language/region. The first part is called internationalization, often abbreviated to i18n (18 being the […]
Dynamic web forms with AngularJS
When we’re building web applications containing data entry forms, it’s sometimes a requirement that (part of) the form is dynamic, in the sense that the fields to be included in the form need to be determined at runtime. For instance, this may be required if application managers need to be able to add new data […]
Web forms with Java: AngularJS and other approaches
After learning about AngularJS a couple of months ago, I started using it on new Java web projects, and that has been a great pleasure. If you haven’t worked with AngularJS yet, you may be wondering what the hype is all about and whether or not it’s a thing worthwhile of investing your time in. […]
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 […]
Twitter Bootstrap, why you should *not* use it
We all know Twitter Bootstrap, a great tool for quickly building “sleek and intuitive” web applications. But why are people actually choosing to use Twitter Bootstrap and why? And more importantly, why I think you should *not* use it (in most cases)! Disclaimer: I am a frontend developer and wrote this blog entry from my […]
Searching with the elasticshell
So as promised here is a sequel to my previous post Introducing the elasticshell. Let’s start exactly where we left off… What about search? We of course need to search against the created index. We can provide queries as either json documents or Java QueryBuilders provided with the elasticsearch Java API, which are exposed to […]
Introducing the elasticshell
A few days ago I released the first beta version of the elasticshell, a shell for elasticsearch. The idea I had was to create a command line tool that allows you to easily interact with elasticsearch. Isn’t elasticsearch easy enough already? I really do think elasticsearch is already great and really easy to use. However, […]
Combining java and node.js
I just wrote a new blogpost about a sample application I have created. The sample is combining a node.js front-end application with a axonframework java based backend. The following image gives you a good idea. The front end contains a node.js application that uses the http library to obtain and send data a rest based […]