Akka Cluster with Docker containers

This article will show you how to build docker images that contain a single akka cluster application. You will be able to run multiple seed nodes and multiple cluster nodes. The code can be found on Github and will be available as a Typesafe Activator. If you don’t know docker or akka Docker is the new shiny star […]

Why you should code open source

Why you should code on some open source projects.

How to add a maven-plugin jar as dependency to sbt

I want to use the jdeb library to integrate in one of my own libraries. Since it is a maven-plugin it’s packaged as a maven plugin. SBT does not resolve the jars if you just add it as a dependency. This will do the trick: "org.vafer" % "jdeb" % "1.2" artifacts (Artifact("jdeb", "jar", "jar"))"org.vafer" % "jdeb" […]

Open Source Projects – Between accepting and rejecting pull request

Lately I have done a lot work for the sbt-native-packager project. Being a commiter comes with a lot of responsibilities. You are responsible for the code quality, supporting your community, encouraging people to contribute to your project and of course providing an awesome open source product. Most of the open source commiters will probably start […]

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 […]