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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

SOA, BPM, EDA, ECM and all the other buzz words. Beware some post might not be so common as you think. We are not scared to go against main stream thoughts.

Technologies like java, maven, springframework, OSGi and front end technologies and frameworks like jQuery, DWR, Flex.

Finally to make this happen we need tools and of course a Mac (well some of us do). So we blog about that as well.

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Introducing a query tool for elasticsearch

In my previous blog posts I was working on reading data from wordpress blogs using groovy. This is nice, but of course there was a reason why I needed this. I wanted to create a tool or better a plugin for Elasticsearch. This plugin should make it easier to check the state of you [...]

Doing more ElasticSearch with groovy

In my previous blog post I wrote about a groovy client for reading a wordpress blog. Than using this client I send the data to ElasticSearch to be indexed. Of course you cannot do anything with ElasticSearch if you do not read the data by executing queries. So that blog post also talks about executing [...]

Learning about ElasticSearch

This week I had a training at Trifork Amsterdam by Martijn and Uri from ElasticSearch. This training was a very nice in depth look at the capabilities of ElasticSearch. Like with all trainings and conferences I get motivated to try out the technology immediately. I am working on a plugin for ElasticSearch using AngularJS. [...]

This was my 2012

It is almost the end of the year, we are getting ready for 2013. Therefore I want to look back at my 2012 as a software engineer. I want to look back at the blogs I have written, the presentations I have given, the books I read and the conferences I attended. This blog post [...]

First steps with vert.x: creating a WebSocket sample

Some time a go, a colleague of mine (Joris) told me about vert.x. I liked the idea of having something like node.js on the java platform. So I was interested, but I did not spend time on it. Recently I attended the talk of Tim Fox at the Goto conference in Amsterdam. Again I liked [...]

A MongoDB based Axon framework event store

For a while we are working on the Axon framework. One of the main components of Axon is the event store. Axon framework has a JPA based event store as well as a file based event store. Within the incubator we have also been working on the MongoDB based event store. In this blog post [...]

Creating an rss feed using the latest features of Hippo

On my employers blog I wrote a piece about a new feature of Hippo called pipelines that can be used to create new content channels. We have created an rss feed using the standard components of Hippo combined with the Rome project. If you are interested you can read the blog post here:

http://blog.dutchworks.nl/2011/12/13/embedding-rss-in-hippo-using-the-pipelines-feature/

Cleaning up your maven repository with groovy

Ever looked at the space used by your maven repository? Think that this is to much? Start reading the blog post I wrote on my employers blog about a groovy script that you can use to clean your local maven repository. It removes old snapshots stored in your repo as well as old versions of [...]