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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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