June 29, 2013

In one of my last projects I used Project Lombok to reduce boilerplate code. Lombok provides some annotations to remove the noise from the java language. How does it work Lombok runs as as an annotation processor which handler modifies the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) by injecting new nodes such as methods and fields. After

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June 2, 2013

Finally I found time to configure my twine. I use it to monitor the heating of a vacation home when nobody is there. The heating there is really old, and the chance of an failure is really high. With the twine software it’s a no brainer to configure a setup like send an email when

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May 28, 2013

Patrick my partner at our software engineering company recently got involved in GoEuro. GoEurois a startup which aims to become the best travel search engine for Europe comparing (and combining) air, train and bus options. The goeuro team did a great work on building their software in the last months. Now the site is open

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April 25, 2013

I just replaced the relative simple Highlight Source Pro with the much more advanced Crayon Syntax Highlighter. Crayon has an awesome theme editor with a lot of predefined code styles: And helper for the editor to insert code snippets: And some fancy ui controls in the code block: #!/usr/bin/ruby puts “Hello World!” Happy coding!

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