Year: 2016

  • Monthly notes 14

    Before opening the Christmas presents it’s time to check what’s in the monthly notes in December. This year there’s not much extra holidays so use them wisely :) Merry Christmas! Issue 14, 23.12.2016 JavaScript Angular 2 is terrible I haven’t used Angular 2 enough to have strong opinions about it but looks like the Internet…

  • Monthly notes 13

    Looks like it’s again the end of another month and it’s time for weekly notes, now with the title of “Monthly notes” as it suits better for my writing activity :) This time it’s about resources of JavaOne 2016, stories from the field of outsourcing and SSL gone wrong, Type Systems for JavaScript, pushing React.js……

  • Weekly notes 12

    Late Autumn and rain has arrived to Finland and now we have good reason to stay at home and read about new ideas and what happens in technology. Weekly notes, issue 12, 30.10.2016 Learning new things Cyber Security Base with F‑Secure Free and open course to learn about tools used to analyse flaws in software…

  • DevOps Finland Meetup goes Mobile at Zalando

    DevOps Finland Meetup goes Mobile at Zalando

    Development and operations, DevOps, is in my opinion essential for getting things done with timely manner and it’s always good to hear how others are doing it by attending meetups. This time DevOps Finland went Mobile and we heard nice presentations about continuous delivery for mobile applications, mobile testing with Appium and the Robot Framework…

  • Weekly notes 11

    Weekly notes 11

    This time weekly notes provides pointers to last weeks JavaOne, teaches you to design better forms, tells about 171 words every programmer should understand and how to learn something about psychology which might help to understand yourself and maybe also users. And last but not least the documentary of last year’s Transcontinental 2015 tells a…

  • Protecting mountain bike tire and rim with Huck Norris and Procore

    Protecting mountain bike tire and rim with Huck Norris and Procore

    Technology is everywhere and even in as simple sport as cycling as its core is full of technology from wireless shifting systems to smart suspension systems and electronic motors. I’ve been riding enduro mountain biking and with going downhill in rocky trails it’s good to have some protection for your tires and rims.… Jatka lukemista…

  • Using Apache for proxying connections to Crucible

    Atlassian’s web applications are great tools for software development and they are relatively easy to setup because they come with Jetty servlet container and HQSQL database. You only have to install Java. Some of the applications can be also run like any normal deployable WAR-packaged web application for example with Apache Tomcat which gives you…

  • Weekly notes 10

    Weekly notes 10

    Summer has been relative nice this far even here in Finland and my short holiday is just couple of days away. But before that it’s time to check this years Java tools and technologies landscape report, get some useful plugins for Atom, start developing a React application with no configuration and read about the benefits…

  • Expanding your horizons on JVM with Kotlin

    Expanding your horizons on JVM with Kotlin

    The power of Java ecosystem lies in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which runs variety of programming languages which are better suitable for some tasks than Java. One relatively new JVM language is Kotlin which is statically typed programming language that targets the JVM and JavaScript. You can use it with Java, Android and the…

  • Web analytics with Piwik: keeping control over your own data

    Web analytics with Piwik: keeping control over your own data

    Web analytics is one the essential tools for a website and including measuring web traffic and getting information about the number of visitors it can be also used as a tool to assess and improve the effectiveness of a website. The most common way to collect data is to use on-site web analytics, measure a…