Quick Tip: Remove IntelliJ IDEAs unused directories on OS X
After upgrading IntelliJ the old directories still remain unused. I suggest to delete them. Configuration Files: ~/Library/Preferences/<Tool><Version> Cache: ~/Library/ »
Frontend Logging with JavaFX and Log4j 2
Although I'm developing Java EE applications with HTML5, I sometimes have to build Java SE applications with a Frontend. I've used Swing or AWT in the »
Maven Plugin to check for Methods that are not implemented
Recently my former colleague, IBM Champion and also highly regarded friend Oliver Busse wrote a blog post called "Quick-Tip: never forget empty methods anymore". In summary, »
Tooltip: unirest - Lightweight HTTP Request Client Libraries
There are a lot of HTTP libraries available in the Java universe like the Apache HttpClient library. Also Java provides the HttpURLConnection class as a standard »
Pitfall with "this" in TypeScript
Recently I stumbled accross a strange behaviour with the "this" reference in TypeScript. class TestClass { value:string; constructor(value:string) { this.value = value; } doSomething():string { return »
Node.js and PostgreSQL
This tutorial shows how to create a simple web server with a tiny REST "API" and a PostgreSQL database. I asume that you have installed the »
TypeScript and jQuery
If you want to use an existing JavaScript library with TypeScript you need some kind of header file. This file, called definition file, contains type informations »
Why Java Developers might love TypeScript
I've met a lot of Java developers that don't like JavaScript. Weak typing, inequality of equality, the scope of variables et cetera. I encourage them not »
Fun with java.net.URL
I'm writing a little app to check the health status of my server and came accross a confusing feature in java.net.URL. I remembered I »
Plesk, Subdomains and (Wildfly) Docker Images
I'm running a Docker container with Wildfly 9 on my server for testing purposes. The server is managed with Plesk, so setting up the subdomain is »
Syntax Highlightning in Ghost
Dieses Blog läuft auf der Blogging Plattform Ghost. Statt HTML oder einem Rich Editor der HTML erzeugt, werden die Artikel in Markdown geschrieben. Markdown ist eine »
Phonegap / Cordova 4.x app with Android Studio 1.x
I assume that you have a working installation of PhoneGap or Cordova CLI. In this post I use the Cordova CLI which is distributed as an »
JPA 2.1 and UUID
Recently I came over to map a table in a Postgres Database that contains a UUID Column. With JPA 2.1 there is a very simple »
Java vs. C#: Inheritance of annotations
Recently a friend and I came over with the idea to blog a series of Java vs. C#. Everything related to this topic you'll find on »
Java Basics: Static code blocks
In a presentation that I gave recently, I noticed that some of the participants never heard of static code blocks before. Static code blocks let you »