Eclipse Foundation Announces Java 8 Support! One day after my post about Java 8 in Eclipse Kepler (4.3) and Eclipse Luna (4.4), the Eclipse Foundation announced official support for Java 8 in Eclipse Kepler. Here is there blog post straight outta Ottawa, Canada:

Java 8 is officially available since a couple of days. It was released on March 18th this year. Yeah! But - Eclipse, the biggest and most popular Java IDE is a little bit behind the schedule (at least IMHO). There is no official Eclipse version for Java 8 right now!

Docker containers and respectively images can become fairly large. I recently worked with a Docker image which was over 7 GB big. However, it is pretty easy to flatten an image at the end.

I recently played around with Docker, an application container and virtualization‎ technology for Linux. It was pretty cool and I was able to create Docker images and containers within a couple of minutes. Everything was working right out of the box!

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 Oracle specialist - it was my first try. And as you will see, I try to make my life as easy as possible. But let’s start with the very basics.

Last year I posted two modifications for the Wordpress plugin NextGen Gallery and its Thickbox and Shutter effect (here is the old one for Thickbox and the old one for Shutter). The modification makes it possible to click on the current image to go forward to the next image. To close the slideshow you can just click somewhere beneath the image. This is the same behavior as on many popular website such as Facebook.

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.

Currently, I am doing my literature studies for my master thesis about OSGi and PaaS. One of the first books I read was Modular Cloud Apps with OSGi from Paul Baker and Bert Ertman published by O’Reilly. Here is what I think about it. Maybe it is a little bit ironic sometimes, but I hope you get the point.

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 together with uWSGI. In this tutorial I want to show how we set up this two tools to run TechTrends and OpinionTrends. The tutorial starts at the very beginning and the only thing I assume is that you run a Linux machine with Python and easy_install.