We are using Oracle Enterprise Linux 64bit installations in VMWare Fusion (32GB MacPros). In principal there are two possibilities to access running processes vmrun and normal IP-based protocols. Here are two bash functions to support scripting: Script to select one Continue reading VMWare Scripting
In the last years we had some quite big research and development investments running in our company. The goal was to design and develop a product for the military market. Trade shows should be the platforms for demonstration and discussions. Continue reading Surrounding SCRUM
Successful projects do not happen, you have to make them. In long lasting projects we see a erosion of architecture and code structure. Changes are more and more difficult to implement, fixing bugs take more and more time, sometimes projects Continue reading Software Architecture and Erosion
Javas ThreadLocal<T> class returns null if the thread local value is unset for the Thread. But this can be a valid value as well. Scala is more precisely and provides a representation for a non-existent value: None extends Option[Nothing] In Continue reading ThreadLocal Singleton with Scalas Option[T]
Playing around with CouchDB (which is a great JSON document based database with REST access), Jersey (JAX-RS/JSR-311 implementation) and Scala I had to implement a custom ContextResolver to use JSON objects instead of XML. The Context Resolver Interface in Java Continue reading JSONContextResolver
I want to create a hashed map for fast access to specific XML tags and attributes. I used a config xml file of JDBCluster and its attribute name of the tag property. At the end of execution ht contains the Continue reading Caching XML access in Scala (example)
