Spring-Boot boilerplate project with ActiveMQ and AngularJS

During the last couple of months, I wrote a lot blog posts about ActiveMQ (JMS), AngularJS and Spring. Most of those blog posts include some small code snippets, but nothing more. That’s why I decided to setup a “boilerplate project” to show how all those different techniques can go hand in hand in a “real […]

Java vs. JavaScript Build Tools

When you come from a Java background like I do and you take a look at JavaScript build tools, the sheer mass of tools is overwhelming.The eco system is evolving very fast with new tools coming up every couple of months. Below, I tried to give a comparison between Java build tools and their equivalent […]

DeployMan (command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS)

DeployMan Yesterday, I published a tool called DeployMan on GitHub. DeployMan is a command line tool to deploy Docker images to AWS and was the software prototype for my master thesis. I wrote my thesis at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, so first of all, I want to say thank you to Thomas Kasemir for the opportunity […]

Show next image by clicking images in NextGEN Gallery V2.0.40

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Opinion Mining on Hackernews and Reddit

TechTrends Last semester two of my friends and I made some sort of a search engine for Hackernews and Reddit. The idea was to collect all articles published on those two platforms and search them for trends. It should be possible to type-in a certain keyword such as “Bitcoin” and retrieve a trend chart showing […]

Show next image by clicking images in NextGEN Gallery with shutter effect

Here‘s the same for NextGEN + Thickbox! Last year I posted an article about modifying NextGEN Gallery (with Thickbox) to show the next image when you click on the current one. This behaviour is well known from Facebook an co. To go to the next picture, just click on the current one. To close the […]

First steps with Ractive.js

During the summer I had a little bit of free time. I had no university courses, almost no on-going projects and was only working for two days a week. So I decided to build a small web app. Since I was couriosly waiting for some grades to arrive in the online portal of my university, […]

TechTrends – Searching trends on HN and Reddit

It’s done! Last Friday (26th July 2013) was the final presentation of our semester project TechTrends. Together with Raphael Brand and Hannes Pernpeintner I worked the last 5 months on this project – and we are really happy about it. What is TechTrends? TechTrends is basically a search-engine for HN and Reddit (just the programming […]