A simple test Since I wanted to have some test coverage (legacy code alert!) for my project I started out testing one of the services, a grails artefact. All was…

I have worked on a demo project for Google Glass. Before this project I already had some experience in Android, which came in handy (I will explain why later). In…
Recently I had to communicate with a USB device from Java. In this case it was my custom build 8x8x8 led cube (similar to this one) which uses the USB HID…
Java 8 is featuring lambdas, which are similar to a construction Groovy has already for some time: closures. In Groovy we could already do this: def list = ['a', 'b',…

In a week I will be attending the 4th annual GOTO Amsterdam conference and I am really looking forward to it. For those who don’t know what this conference is…
I once heard this story of an autistic boy who needed to pack his belongings. His parents had decided to move to a different house and he was given a…

With the prospect of a short but challenging assignment in a week, I had some time to configure my machine with a development environment. I wanted to have an isolated…

The Elastic Search REST API for searching can be quite overwhelming. There are lots of different queries you can do with multiple options and some of them even can be…

Momentarily I’m working on a project in which I had some problems with the debugger. Every time I tried to install a breakpoint I got the error message ‘cannot install…

About Payments is a platform which catalogues online payment providers and methods. It was originally build in WordPress but as the scope changed from a news site to an online…