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 »
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 »
Filter Requests with JEE 6 / 7
A tiny but shiny improvement with Java EE 6 was the @WebFilter – Annotation which made the filtering and manipulating of requests very easy: No more com. »