Author Archives: Michael Glauche

Java.util.logging vs. slf4j

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Michael Glauche

A bit of History At the time the now discontinued log4j was the most commonly used logging framework for java sun decided to implement JSR 47: java.util.logging. There were a lot of discussion, but it seems not been fruitful. java.util.logging … Continue reading →

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Drag & Drop with Selenium

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Michael Glauche

Using Selenium for web-gui tests is really nice. You can record your workflow with the excelent selenium plugin for firefox and use them to write your own test. The only problem seems to be Drag&Drop. The senenium runner has some … Continue reading →

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Logging with SLF4J and Guice

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Michael Glauche

After getting angry at the java.util.logger once again i was thinking how to replace it with the SLF4J logger. Although Guice provides a very nice internal binding to java.util.logger, slf4j does offer a much nicer syntax. The devil is in … Continue reading →

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got the Imon VFD Display (15c2:0036) finally working

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Michael Glauche

The IR part of the SoundGraph 15c2:0036 VFD/IR device was working for quite some time now after a couple of big updates hit lirc (currently it works for the 0.8.5+ cvs version) One small quirk was still present, the vfd … Continue reading →

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Easymock … or taking the pain out of (j)unit tests

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Michael Glauche

Easymock provides easy mocking for junit tests, this blog entry describes how to use them efficiently. Continue reading →

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Aop with Guice

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Michael Glauche

Aop has many uses, from doing transaction handling to authorisation. With the powerfull Guice framework it is suprisingly easy. Continue reading →

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a thin god

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Michael Glauche

Nothing spirtual here, but the cool monitoring framework god together with thin. You’ve probably read a lot of benchmarks about thin, but whats the fastest webserver when you can’t ensure they are up and running ? Right here is where … Continue reading →

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How many Thin server instances are best ?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Michael Glauche

I wondered about how many parallel thin you need to get the optimal throughput. I often saw values from 3 to 10 servers in different configuration examples around the net. Time to get some real numbers. To get a meaningful … Continue reading →

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Thin + Nginx with Rails

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Michael Glauche

Recently i’ve been playing around with xen and different hosting solutions, and i was wondering about lightweight, yet performant replacements for the usual apache + mod_fcgi + dispatcher stack. I did toy around with nginx before, together with mongrel with … Continue reading →

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using extjs in rails part 2

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Michael Glauche

creating a simple logon window First, we need a simple view for our index defined in part 1 index.rhtml in views/login <script type=”text/javascript” src=”/javascripts/login.js”></script> <p>Here comes the Content which will be used after the user logged on.</p> This is just … Continue reading →

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