Tag Archives: mail&media
My Football Team
I like to run until exhaustion. Chasing a ball, recovering it, passing, occasionally scoring. I like the after-sensation, when the endorphins start kicking in, when even my tongue is heavy for a short time. Unfortunately for me, this exhaustion moment … Continue reading
Short Tutorial: How You Can Easily Monitor Your Application with Hadoop API and Ganglia Monitoring System
The main classes in Hadoop API you should know are: Updater (interface), MetricsRecord, MetricsRegistry and MetricsContext (interface). The wiring between this classes is pretty complex so I will talk about how to use them and not how they work. First … Continue reading
Monitor your application with Ganglia and Hadoop Metrics API
If you use Hadoop/Hbase in your project you know that it comes with tight integration with Ganglia monitoring system. It exposes lots of metrics that helps operations teams to check the health of the cluster, development teams to investigate incidents … Continue reading
Why I’d choose Apache Wicket as a web application framework- part 4
Framework minus points To be fair I have to say something about what I think are the current weakness of the framework: Remember that Wicket has been developed for state-full applications. But there are a number of reasons why you’d … Continue reading
Why I’d choose Apache Wicket as a web application framework- part 3
About Wicket and JS Even from the beginning Wicket had Ajax capabilities built-in that could be called from Java. This is done by simply adding the Java component to an ajax context object, the AjaxRequestTarget. Of course you can invoke … Continue reading
Why I’d choose Apache Wicket as a web application framework- part 2
Component based framework with good concepts that appeals to developers But the best thing for me is that Wicket really feels like a true Object Oriented web framework. All your components, pages, panels are Java objects (with a .html). Every … Continue reading
Why I’d choose Apache Wicket as a web application framework
In a short description Apache Wicket is a good state-full component based framework which cultivates a sound architecture that appeals to Java developers. This is just going to be a general summary of the points of why you might want … Continue reading
Having fun with Solr and Hadoop
We are so used with searching on the web or in our mailboxes that we take it for granted. But luckily, one day, a project with the requirement of building a search system for the biggest email clients in Germany … Continue reading
Getting started with qooxdoo
qooxdoo is a JavaScript framework for creating desktop-style web applications, often called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). It was born in January 2005, one month before the term AJAX was even coined. It’s open source and there is a team of … Continue reading
Million dollars from usability testing
“The average business metrics improvement after usability redesign is 83%” – Jakob Nielsen Simply put, usability testing is about understanding what people do when they are using your product or, if you are web developer, your website. It’s well known … Continue reading
