Who is using OSGi?

Who is using OSGi? If you take a look http://www.osgi.org/About/Members you will see more than a hundred members of the the OSGi Alliance and a lot of big players just like IBM or Oracle. But lets do a little investigation with Google Trends on our own. Google Trends Google Trends is a service where you […]

Development speed, the Docker remote API and a pattern of frustration

One of the challenges Docker is facing right now, is its own development speed. Since its initial release in January 2013, there have been over 7.000 commits (in one year!) by more than 400 contributors. There are more than 1.800 forks on GitHub and Dockers brings up approximately one new release per month. Docker is […]

3 ways of installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu

During the last few days I struggled with installing Oracle XE 11g on an Ubuntu VM. And with “the last few days” I mean “the last few weeks”. Sad, but true. Here is what I learned about installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu. But please note that I am not a Linux specialist nor an […]

Begin of my master thesis about OSGi and PaaS providers

My studies go into the final round – since the first of February I work on my master thesis about (enterprise) OSGi applications and PaaS providers in the cloud. I evaluate an existing OSGi server application and try to migrate it to a PaaS provider. My deadline is in the mid of July 2014. Right […]

Install OpinionTrends with nginx and memcached

OpinionTrends is build with Python and Flask. Therefore you can run it without any additional server right out of the box. Batteries included! However, it is much more common and much more efficient if you run it with a web server and an application server. A widely used combination for Python web applications is nginx […]

Working with GerritHub.io

This semester I attended an university course called System Engineering and Management taught by Prof. Walter Kriha. Together with Jan Müller, I build a continuous integration environment for the course. As we were looking for a code review system we found a plattform called GerritHub.io which offered a Gerrit system for GitHub as a service. […]

Media Night Apps

This year there is something new on the Media Night, the student fair at our university. The booklet is dead! In its past, the Media Night had had a printed booklet with its program and time table in it. The booklet was produced by one of our printing faculties for which the HdM is pretty […]

Continuous Integration Development Workflow

This semester I attended an university course called System Engineering and Management taught by Prof. Walter Kriha. The course has a slightly different topic every year and is made up of presentations from students, research assistants and other lecturers. The topic in this year was continuous integration and software deployment. Together with Jan Müller, I […]