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WordPress theme development with Vagrant on OS X
Developing WordPress themes requires you to have either remote machine with the needed software or installing e.g. PHP and MySQL to your local machine. Although setting up the development environment (LAMP stack) in OS X is quite easy there’s also better option, to separate it from your machine and make it more like it’s on…
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Setting up Bower and Gulp in Windows
Doing things manually is fine once but if you can automate things it’s better. With little tools you can speed up development and reduce recursive mundane tasks such as starting a project or setting up boilerplate code. I recently came across Bower which is a package manager for the web. With Bower you can fetch…
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Essential IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts
Recently I switched from using Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA as our Java EE application’s front-end was done with JavaScript and the support for front-end technologies in Eclipse is more or less non-existent. The switch for long time Eclipse user wasn’t easy as IDEA works a bit differently but the change was worth it.… Jatka lukemista…
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Year in review
The year 2015 is almost here so it’s time to take a short review what I wrote this year and plan for the next. In 2014 I managed to wrote almost monthly and got together total of 14 articles covering topics of software development, WebLogic issues, Sailfish OS, user experience and gadgets.… Jatka lukemista →
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Getting Git Right in Helsinki
Software development is fun if you have tools which work great and support what you’re doing. So it was finally great to get hear Sven Peters talking about better software development in teams as Atlassian’s Getting Git Right landed to Helsinki (24.11.2014). Event about Git and of course about Atlassian’s tools.… Jatka lukemista →
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Authentication with LDAP provider in WebLogic gets stuck
Lately we upgraded our Java EE applications to new platform and began seeing stuck threads and slow starting times. The platform was upgraded from OC4J to WebLogic 12c and also the underlying LDAP service was changed to Oracle Access Manager. Looking at the server logs the one possible reason for stuck threads was quite clear:…
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Planning for Fujitsu Forum 2014: Human Centric Innovation
In late November it’s again time for business- and IT decision-makers, experts, project managers, IT architects, consultants and bloggers to travel to Munich, Germany to visit Fujitsu’s largest IT-event in Europe: Fujitsu Forum 2014. This year the event is held 19th and 20th November at the ICM in Munich and there will probably be over…
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Distribute project’s artifacts in Maven Central with OSSRH
You have developed some crafty Java library or Maven plugin and now you want to distribute it to other users through Maven Central repository? Using Sonatype Open Source Software Repository Hosting Service is a nice way for open source projects to achieve that and there’s two options to get your artifacts in it: 1.… Jatka…
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Monitor and profile application with Java Mission Control
Monitoring Java applications is can be done with different tools and with JDK you get one good tool for it: Java Mission Control. Java Mission Control and Java Flight Recorder together create a complete tool chain to continuously collect low level and detailed runtime information enabling after-the-fact incident analysis. Starting with Oracle JDK 7 Update…
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Sailfish OS User Interface design practices
The operating system running on Jolla has different and refreshing approach to user experience than the mainstream mobile operating systems. Sailfish OS is quite new project which also shows in applications’ user interfaces as common practices are not quite established. There are some guidelines and component usage examples how the applications should be built but…