Heiko Braun Software Engineer

Alex McGuire on Using Scala in a Large-Scale Project

Alex McGuire, a developer with Électricité de France, describes how his team has been gradually migrating to Scala in a 300,000-line mission-critical production application. More …

James Strachan on Scala

If you are interested in Scala, then I’d recommend James blogpost on Scala. He did collect a lot of resources to whet your appetite.

Integrating App Engine with EC2

A usual morning: Grab a coffee, check your emails and browse the latest rss feed updates. This time stumbled across an interesting session, given at google i/o: “App Engine Nitty-Gritty: Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Integrating Amazon EC2″

Drools Flow adopts BPM Console

Kris Verlaenen, the Drools Flow lead, has successfully adopted the BPM Console for Drools.
This means you can now manage Drools Flow processes the same way you do in jBPM4.

That’s great news. It shows that the initial design, decoupling the console from the engine has proven to be successful.

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Client-side data storage: JavaScript database support

I remember the days when Javascript was considered a severe security vulnerability. Now we get client side javascript database support. Safari already implements it. Wicked!