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A sane architecture for Android apps
Building native Android apps is fairly simple: just throw some Java code together, add some XML to it and there you have it: a cool new Android app. But also sadly in most cases an unmaintainable Android app in the long run. For many developers this seems to be just fine but I often asked…
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Pimp my Backbone.View (by replacing it with React)
I’ve been using Backbone.js in a couple of projects now and my feelings about it are quite diverse. On the one hand, I like how it provides you with guidelines on how to structure your frontend code. Although splitting model and view is a very basic idea in software development, it also is very powerful.…
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Beyond Tellerrand 2013
On Monday and Tuesday I was attending the „Beyond Tellerrand“ conference in Düsseldorf – a curated conference targeting frontend development, design and creativity. Or to sum it up: about shaping the experience for users on the web. After having visited the really inspiring „sister“-conference „Play! Beyond Tellerrand“ (which is more code-focused) a year ago I…
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Connectivity for the (occasional) road warrior
When you have a virtual machine that connects both to the host directly and to the network via bridging, you can run into troubles with DNS resolution if you use DHCP on both network interfaces. Since the solution is somewhat cryptically hidden in the DHCP client manual, here’s a walkthrough.
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Supplementing your Online Shop with Apache SOLR
Nowadays, if you want to have an online shop, you have a choice between a number of software solutions, from small and slim to large and comprehensive. Oxid eShop, Shopware, Magento, XT-Commerce are a couple of the more well-known solutions. Every vendor tries to provide the best experience for their target audience, so a couple…
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A shift of mind
You must be the change you want to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi As things change fast, reacting to these changes is not a matter of some new actions but a challenge for a real shift of mind. To realize the necessity of shifting your mind again requires being aware of your…
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MongoDB – the pitfalls and how to avoid them
When we first thought about writing this post we were rather tempted to title it „MongoDB – 10 things I hate about you“, but that wouldn’t be fair after all. We learned the hard way how painful it can be to replace a working MySQL installation with a mongoDB, especially in a large scale project…
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Message Queues for web applications with STOMP
Just like human beings, machines need to communicate with each other – and they do this by passing messages around. The simplest form is to use a protocol like TCP and build some sort of API on top of it. But sometimes this just isn’t enough, especially if you want the connection to be reliable…
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Guzzling web services out of the box…
Guzzle has come to a certain fame recently as the framework powering Amazon Web Services new SDK2 for PHP. But what exactly is Guzzle? Guzzle is a framework for building RESTful web service clients. As such it is obviously a very potent HTTP-client library, that presents us with an easy way to send subtly crafted…