If you need to send apple push notifications to your users, like we do in a secret project mentioned earlier this week, notnoop’s java-apns library is a good choice, because…

Today i integrated the JSR303 reference implementation, which is Hibernate-Validator 4.x, into an existing JavaEE application. The application is built on Spring 3.0 and uses our Synyx Hades project, which…

Have you ever pondered on the NSString class reference and you were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of methods? I certainly have and due to the endless possibilities those methods…

I have just been fighting with the sql-maven-plugin while trying to import an OpenCms MySQL dump automatically. The module wasn’t really verbose with an error message: [ERROR] Failed to execute:…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…

Before flying off to WWDC last month, I watched a whole bunch of sessions from 2009. Among others a session on “Prototyping iPhone User Interfaces” by Bret Victor. If you…

… bis zum Ende meiner dreijährigen Ausbildung zum Fachinformatiker Systemintegration. Gestern durfte ich im Rahmen einer feierlichen Abschlusszeremonie in der Heinrich-Hertz-Schule, mit live-Musik und mehr oder weniger spannenden Reden von…

Dealing with self-signed ssl certificates is a real pain, because it’s not that simple to add them in your app and let android accept them. But fortunately, there’s a workaround…

After you got the route from wherever, you probably want to draw it on a MapView. But how to do it? That’s what I will show you now. Create a…