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Nov 18

Devoxx 2012 Swag

steve2 CommentsDevoxxdevoxx, freebies, swag

Devoxx 2012 has been and gone, and it was a fantastic few days in Antwerpen. I caught up with a lot of great people, made the acquaintance of even more and saw some superb presentations (plus a couple of duds, Read more

Nov 02

Back to Basics – good comments are targeted comments

steve4 Commentsfundamentals, Software engineering, thoughtsgood practice, software engineering, thoughts

I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a meetup group for fans of it. Outside of code that I write for Read more

Oct 29

Functional tests in Play! 2 with REST-assured

steveLeave a commenthow to, java, play framework, RESTful web serviceshow-to, java, open source, play!, quick&easy, REST

In the Play! documentation, several flavours of functional testing are mentioned, including starting a HTTP server for the duration of the test – this is very useful for testing web services. In code, this looks like import static play.test.Helpers.*; … Read more

Oct 06

Thoughts on the Belgian Play! Framework User Group dojo

steveLeave a commentBelgian Play! Framework User Group, play frameworkdojo, play-be, play!, thoughts

The 3rd of October saw the Belgian Play! Framework User Group hold its first coding dojo and overall, it was a success. It’s the first time I’ve been involved in the organisation of anything like this, although the vast majority Read more

Sep 30

Twitter4J – quick fix for 401 issues

steve3 Commentshow to401, system time, twitter4j, unauthorised

The Belgian Play! Framework User Group is holding its first dojo on Wednesday, and I’m helping to implement the reference application.  We’re using Twitter as a communication point, and one of the best (the best?) Twitter API for Java is Read more

Sep 30

Harry Potter and the Personal Lesson

steveLeave a commentthoughts, Uncategorizeddevelopment, harry potter, startup

Geek alert. I love the Harry Potter books. I thought they were well-written and cohesive.  You may have read them too, and felt something similar.  What you may not have done – and you can skip to the end otherwise Read more

Sep 29

Shit or get off the pot

steve1 Commentthoughtscrap, ps3, sony

I bought my first Playstation 3 about five years ago, and it was great.  I’m not particularly into games, but it was purchased as a media player and it worked perfectly.  Three years later, the dreaded red light of death Read more

Sep 27

PlayBe Dojo – all seats booked, and ready to go

steveLeave a commentBelgian Play! Framework User Group, play framework, thoughtsdojo, play!, playbe, thoughts

With less than a week to go until the Belgian Play! Framework User Group holds its first coding dojo, all 20 places have now been taken.  I was half-way through a blog post to promote it when person #20 signed Read more

Sep 02

Abandoned blog posts

steveLeave a commentthoughts

I get ideas for blog posts all the time. As you could guess by the number of posts here (currently at 56), the majority are toyed with and then ignored. Here are three that I’ve come up in the last Read more

Aug 31

Loading Backbone views into lightboxes

steve2 Commentsbackbone.js, javascriptbackbone, DOM, fancybox, javascript, lightbox

My current project involves a client application written using Backbone.js, and the FAQ page will appear in a lightbox. No big deal, right? Unfortunately, it’s not just as simple as it sounds because if you take a naive approach you Read more

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