http://www.thomasknierim.com Software development with Java, Scala, and PHP Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:20:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are quite a few reasons to like gadgets. They are usually free and open source by design. They use standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. They are -at least in principle- platform-independent and portable. Perhaps most importantly, they are easy to program and deploy, which makes ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/149/web-development/gimme-gadgets/ One doesn't need to be a top-class industry analyst to notice that the sales of smart phones is currently exploding. These devices are simply everywhere. Shops are plastered with iPhones and Android phones. The word is that suppliers and manufacturers have difficulties coping with demand. Good times for smartphone makers, ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/148/tech-trends/iphony/ NoSQL databases have entered the radar of web application developers lately. While relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been powering almost every web application on the Internet for more than a decade, this is beginning to change. No longer is the selection of persistence technology a no-brainer. You have additional ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/145/web-development/nosql-databases/ Ubuntu 10.04 alias Lucid Lynx has arrived and because this is a long-time support version, many users are bound to upgrade within the next few weeks. It seems like the GUI people from Canonical were unusually daring this time. Not only is this the first Ubuntu version that sports a ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/144/management/onward-to-lucid-lynx/ I am glad to announce the first release of the Scala Pages (SCP) lightweight web framework, which I wrote for a personal web application project. Although it's still at a humble stage of development, I believe it is useful enough to be shared. I am planning to extend it in ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/143/scala/scala-pages-released/ As you can gather from the title of this website, I create software in Java, Scala, and PHP. While Java and Scala compile to bytecode that runs on the same virtual machine, PHP is executed by a separate interpreter. The most efficient way to run PHP scripts is to integrate ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/140/web-development/serve-php-with-tomcat/ I've been using Linux on servers in various flavours since 1997, but I am relatively new to Ubuntu and I have just started using Ubuntu as a desktop OS. Despite some installation problems, the overall experience was very positive. I had made earlier attempts to switch over to Linux, but ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/136/open-source/ubuntu-newbie-tips/ Today, I came across an interesting article in the Forbes Magazine entitled "Computing 2010". The interesting part is that this article was written ten years ago. The author, Kip Crosby, imagined what computers would look like in 2010: optical circuits instead of silicon, with a CPU running at 100 GHz, ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/135/tech-trends/computing-2010/ Once upon a time as a Java newbie, I thought that Java Server Pages were great. Back then I had done web development in Perl and PHP and I was pleasantly surprised by the similarity of the development process. It's as simple as write and run. No bothersome compiler runs ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/133/java/jsp-nightmares/ Today I'd like to present another Ant script for Scala development. I promise it's going to be the last one, but I felt this mini series wouldn't be complete without it. This script is for developing a Lift application with Scala. I became interested in Lift in the first half ... http://www.thomasknierim.com/131/web-development/ant-script-for-scala-with-lift/