An old friend from the greek internets George B (aka Άχθος Αρούρης or snolly), he had his summer vacation on the beautiful island of Crete . Not only that, he was geek enough to take a drone among his luggage, a drone. yeap a drone. So you have a geek, a drone and summer vacations in a beautiful Greek island and this …

This post is not targeting people who already consider themselves MacOSX powerusers or they already are users of brew and cask. I have to admit, I discovered the power and easiness of these tools, quite late in my MacOSX user life, so I have to thank my ex-colleague and friend Harris who forced me to integrate brew and …

Lately, I have been considering using Swagger (core and it's related maven plugin) for one project, in order to provide some REST API documentation. Despite the fact, that Swagger is indeed a very powerful library, doable to integrate on your JAXRS 2.0 code base and the maven plugin works at the end of the day I think …

Personal note to me rather than something special, if you use Boot2Docker on your MacOSX and you want an easy way to your docker command line client to connect to the underlying boot2docker vm, add on your /.bash_profile_ file the following line. Credit's to this stackoverflow post. 1bash $(boot2docker shellinit …

I have recently finished reading Java EE7 Development with Wildfly by Michał Ćmil, Michał Matłoka and Francesco Marchioni, from Packt, I really liked it, since it covers two of my favorite subjects. JavaEE7 is my technology stack of choice, so I really like reading books around it and Wildfly which I personally believe …

Series it's been a long time since my last post, for this series of tutorials. it's time to resume and add new features on our simple project. As I have mentioned in previous posts, this series of posts is targeting mostly Maven and JavaEE7 newcomers, I welcome any questions or comments (and fixes) on the contents …

Well tested code is a concept that many developers talk about every day, lots of great authors write books and articles around it, several tools are being developed that aim to help developers to do it faster and efficiently. Despite all the above, testing is something like a lost art, many development teams ignore it, …

In this post we are going to install CouchBase, a NoSQL database that has gained a lot of momentum latetly. CouchBase is very very developer friendly in terms of setting up and getting started time. Actually is the simplest. It offers a single download for many platforms (including MacOSX). You can find them here. It …

In this post we will install on our local MacOSX (Yosemite) environment, another famous NoSQL database, the Apache Cassandra. As a developer, I found Datastax, community packaging of Cassandra, very handy, seems they offer ready made MacOSX specific packages. You can of course download and install the the tarballs f …

This post aims to help all developers (not only Java) that want to develop using NoSQL datastores, specifically MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase, in MaOSX. Before starting writing code you need to have the db engines installed and ready for tests. So our goal for these mini posts will be to install all of them in our …