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2026 3

  1. SiteBuilder Remote Assets: Cross-Vertical Architecture and S3 Integration
  2. SiteBuilder Architecture Insights: Agent Tools and Execution Context
  3. Introducing SiteBuilder: Edit Web Content with Natural Language

2025 5

  1. What if software shipped with a software engineer?
  2. Introducing MCP as a Service: an open MCP server management platform
  3. New Open Source project: An AI-Friendly Static Landing Page Generator
  4. Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results
  5. New project: Platform Problem Monitoring

2024 5

  1. Cost and performance optimization of Amazon Athena through data partitioning
  2. Kosten- und Performance-Optimierung von Amazon Athena durch Daten-Partitionierung
  3. Node & React Beginner Tutorial — Part 3: Node.js: JavaScript on the command line
  4. Node & React Beginner Tutorial — Part 2: Storing values
  5. Node & React Beginner Tutorial — Part 1: Introduction to JavaScript

2022 1

  1. Getting rid of temporary failures in name resolution on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

2021 2

  1. Tutorial: Single Page Applications with a Serverless Backend and Infrastructure as Code
  2. January 2021 Reading Recommendations

2020 1

  1. Single Sign-On and Resource Separation on AWS

2018 3

  1. Die Metapher der Stadt für das Bauen und Betreiben von Softwareprodukten
  2. Wie Studien verdreht werden
  3. March 2018 Book Recommendations

2016 7

  1. How Cassandra's inner workings relate to performance
  2. Scala Play2: Tolerant JSON body parsing with dedicated error handling
  3. Scala: Traversing a graph in a functional way
  4. Puppet: Evaluating defined types for each element in an array in a non-brittle way
  5. Compile Time Cassandra Injection in Play 2.4
  6. Video: Die E-Commerce-Welt bei GALERIA Kaufhof
  7. Die Architektur der Galeria.de Plattform im Kontext der Produktentwicklungs-Organisation

2015 11

  1. Play2: Switching from specs2 to ScalaTest
  2. Adding a Play2 application as a sub-project to an existing sbt project
  3. Upgrading a Symfony project from 2.6 to 3.0
  4. Entwicklung und Betrieb einer Symfony2 Webanwendung – Teil 1
  5. Setting up an sbt-based project for Scala 2.11 with ScalaTest support
  6. How I build, deploy, and run Spark
  7. Interview: Die E-Commerce-Plattform von GALERIA Kaufhof
  8. Transformieren und Validieren von JSON Requests in Play2
  9. Things you should not read, Vol. 2
  10. Setting up a Scala sbt multi-project with Cassandra connectivity and migrations
  11. Things you should not read, Vol. 1

2014 7

  1. Limiting access to forwarded ports in Cisco iOS
  2. Creating a useful AngularJS project structure and toolchain
  3. Mocking Dependencies in PHP Unit Tests with Mockery
  4. Building manageable server infrastructures with Puppet: Part 1
  5. Building manageable server infrastructures with Puppet: Part 2
  6. Building manageable server infrastructures with Puppet: Part 3
  7. Building manageable server infrastructures with Puppet: Part 4

2013 1

  1. Converting a running physical machine into a KVM virtual machine

2012 18

  1. Software-RAIDs unter Linux mittels md
  2. Direktes mounten eines KVM RAW Images
  3. KVM Gäste über WLAN ins Netz bringen
  4. Desktop Ubuntu zu Server downgraden
  5. Mit virt-install virtuelle KVM Maschinen an der Textkonsole ohne VNC installieren
  6. Using virt-install to create virtual KVM machines on the text console without using VNC
  7. Window Maker unter Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
  8. Bash: Skriptausgaben mit Zeitstempel versehen
  9. Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications
  10. Tutorial: Developing HTML5 Canvas Games for Facebook with JavaScript
  11. “We need to work longer” – Why this is not what you want to say
  12. True universal JavaScript modules with write-once-run-anywhere Jasmine specs
  13. Talk: PHP 5.4 – die wichtigsten Neuerungen im Überblick
  14. Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation
  15. Project: projectile, an HTML5 canvas game
  16. Project: bivouac, an HTML5 web chat with filesharing
  17. Interview on the Leanpub Podcast
  18. Deploying Symfony2 Apps via Scalarium: Improved Methodology

2011 11

  1. Cocoa: What to do if outlineView: objectValue ForTableColumn: byItem never gets called
  2. How hosting MyHammer started in a devops way back in the day
  3. Deploying Symfony2 Applications to Amazon AWS with Scalarium
  4. Behaviour-driven node.js development with stubbing by combining Vows and node-gently
  5. The only job application form that makes sense
  6. Why developing without tests is like driving a car without brakes
  7. Visualization: Why working iterative works
  8. Interview mit mir auf dem O’Reilly Blog
  9. Empfehlung: Literatur für Manager
  10. Neues Projekt: Platform Health Viewer
  11. New project: Platform Health Viewer

2010 9

  1. Testgetriebene Administration – test driven administration
  2. – ein radikal neuer Weg, Ajax Applikationen zu schreiben
  3. Tutorial: Testgetriebene Entwicklung mit PHP
  4. Empfehlung: Barbecue Sauce “Bone Suckin’ regular thicker style” von Ford’s Food
  5. Empfehlung: “Der Kuchenladen” in Berlin
  6. Project: PHPRestfulSubversion
  7. Alte Homepage wieder verfügbar
  8. siqqel: SQL-Abfragen direkt aus HTML heraus ausführen und darstellen
  9. Database Change Management mithilfe von VCS: Teil 1

2007 2

  1. Wie man Replikationsunterbrechung durch Deadlocks bei INSERT INTO … SELECT verhindert
  2. Recycelter Artikel: “My-Hammer, das Fernsehen und die Serverlast”