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
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
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
Cleaning up artifactory with a groovy script
On my employers blog I wrote an article about cleaning up your local maven repository. It gets polluted with old snapshot artifacts easily. It also leaves a lot of build around if you release regularly. After cleaning up your local
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
Recap of the year 2010
The new year has started, with it comes one of the last opportunities to look back at 2010. So what happened, what did I try out, what did I like and what didn’t I like. I also want to have
My first steps with Gradle: creating a multi module java web project and running it with jetty.
I am a experienced maven user. Sometime I love it, sometimes I hate it. I like it a lot better than ant, but in some situation you would like maven to be easier and more descriptive. The past year there
Exposing jmx through jmxmp and reading the jmx data with groovy
In my previous post, “Using JMX within a spring application“, I talked about monitoring your application with jmx. I discussed exposing beans with spring. At one of my current projects I am having problems exposing jmx through the default jmxrmi