If you are used to Unix shells like bash or zsh for many years and suddenly have to work with PowerShell - as I recently did - this may seem very awkward and restricted at first glance. The terminal style still reminds to MS-DOS and some familiar UNIX commands seem to be available but only work halfway.
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Imitating PDF Forms in HTML
Recently I got a customer’s request for an eCommerce web site: They wanted to display existing PDF forms in the browser, so that their users can complete them online, send the form data to the server and receive a filled PDF. Of course most browsers can display PDF directly and even allow to fill out … Continue reading Imitating PDF Forms in HTML
Scalable Software Systems
From developer laptops to server farms Scalability has long been one of the hallmarks of quality IT systems. When we hear this term we usually associate it with an upward scalability of the system. Generally, it seems to be about how much more throughput and load our system can sustain through additonal RAM, CPU or … Continue reading Scalable Software Systems
Using JavaScript Inside JVM to Navigate Data Graphs
When I was looking for a suitable language for traversing graph data structures in Arastreju, I quickly came across JavaScript, which is expressive, flexible, simple and widely used. Originally I considered to create yet another DSL, but this would have restricted the users to those navigation, filtering and traversal operations I happened to foresee at … Continue reading Using JavaScript Inside JVM to Navigate Data Graphs
Component Frameworks and the Web
I’ve always been a fan of component oriented web frameworks. At least since I had contact to the first one: It was Apache Tapestry in 2003. What I liked in the way component frameworks work was the ability to divide complex web sites into simple, handy parts - the web components. In contrast to other … Continue reading Component Frameworks and the Web
Management of Organizational Information
As announced in my first post of this new blog, I want to sketch the idea of our (freshly open sourced) project Glasnost today: The simple purpose we aimed for our web application Glasnost, was to record, organize and evaluate organizational information. On the one hand there are the organizational units, people, projects, processes and products. And … Continue reading Management of Organizational Information
Re-Start…
This is my second try to start a blog. Nearly 10 years after the first one, where I had not gone further as an initial post, in which I thought about the topics I was going to blog about. Well, let’s look if this time will be better… The actual occasion for this next try … Continue reading Re-Start…
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