Part 1: What can go wrong, will go wrong! Over the years we have been part of a couple of migration efforts to a more modern infrastructure and architecture. We have seen the good, the bad and the ugly side such projects bring with them. All of them could be described as from monolith […]
As we switched our wordpress to https, we encountered some mixed-content warning in the browsers. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-content-isnt-secure-affect-my-safety?redirect=no The reason is, that there are some links in the page, that refer to http instead of https. This often applies to image links. An easy way to fix that, was to show the HTML source code in a […]
We want to share a small study we made when trying to optimize the queue policy for a messaging system. We wanted to find an optimal configuration for a messaging system in terms of buffer size, number of threads and queue blocking policy, or at least to get a feeling of which variables come into […]
If you use WordPress there are a lot of nice small plugins. The Login LockDown is one of them. It is not the newest, but its has a nice feature. If it determines some wrong login tries, it blocks the IP address for a certain time. This plugin is configurable and still works, nearly … […]
About one and a half years ago we switched all our projects from using PDE together with Maven Tycho to bnd. The increase in development speed we reached was immense. Additionally bnd automatically pushed us towards writing better OSGi software. Over the time we experienced a lot of fallacies PDE unknowingly lead us to. One […]
Last week we had a talk at the EclipseCon Europe 2018 in Ludwigsburg, presenting one of our OpenSource projects. It is called Gecko EMF and available here: https://gitlab.com/gecko.io/geckoEMF The Slides for the talk can be found here: EMF and OSGi What is Gecko EMF? It is an addition to EMF that makes it possible to […]
A while back, we reactivated our Nexus and wanted to use bnd to release to an OBR and an the Nexus at the same time. As usual, we have an automated build handled by jenkins, which does a snapshot build from our develop branch and a release build from changes to the master branch. With […]
If you are using the brand new Eclipse Photon on an Ubuntu 16.04, it can happen that you encounter some rendering issues like the one below. I start my Eclipse in Ubuntu using the .desktop files with the following environment variable: SWT_GTK3=0. This is obvious not necessary any more. You can either set the value […]
Recently, I wanted to build an OSGi application that should run on my RaspberryPi. So I wanted an easy way to test this application on the Pi. After some research I found the possibility to use a remote laucher in bnd. There are two parts necessary for that: the remote agent the local launcher Configure […]
Automatically create desktop files under Ubuntu with Eclipse Oomph installer If you are a user of the Eclipse IDE using Ubuntu and you are using the Oomph installer as well, I will show the possibility to automatically create .desktop files. That makes it possible to find the installation with your desktop search tool. I used […]
