Playframework and RequireJS

As a backend developer I like tools that help me to structure my code. Doing more and more frontend stuff I finally got time to learn some of the basics of RequireJS. Unfortunately the tutorials how to compose playframework and requireJS with multipage applications is not too big. There’s is some with AngularJS, but I didn’t […]

Gradient Decent with Scala

Currently I’m watching a Scala and a Maschine Learning course on coursera.org and wanted to try some simple stuff for myself. I choose Gradient Decent would be a perfect start to try some functional programming. The code import scala.math._ object GradientDecent extends App { val alpha = 0.1 //size of steps taken in […]

DevVM Part 1 – Gerrit on Ubuntu 12.04 Server

I’m currently working on a little development VM and want to share some of my insides I gain and how I managed to get things work. The series will start with the tutorial to install Gerrit. What is Gerrit? Gerrit provides a powerful server to integrate a code-review process in your git-driven development process. These […]

Maven – Tycho, Java, Scala and APT

This tutorial shows a small project which is build with maven-tycho and the following requirements: Mixed Java / Scala project Eclipse plugin deployment Eclipse Annotation Processing (APT) Manifest-first approach Java 7 / Scala 2.9.2 That doesn’t sound too hard. In fact it isn’t, if you are familiar with maven and how tycho works. Setting up […]

Akka and OSGi development in Eclipse

This short tutorial is about how to run akka in an OSGi environment. I faced a lot of problems deploying in this in plain eclipse without maven, bnd or sbt. This example is done with the java-API, however it is also possible with Scala. Requirements Eclipse Helios 3.6.2 with Scala-Plugin akka-1.1-modules distribution Configuration First we […]