In our internal JavaScript ‘User Group’ (called JS-Posse in honour of the legendary ‘The Java Posse‘ by Dick Wall, Chet Haase et al.), we recently decided to evaluate alternatives to…

Particularly to people using C++ and Python the Qt framework is probably quite well-known, as in these communities it’s one of the most-used frameworks for application development. For those who…

Warum in die Ferne schweifen, wenn das Gute doch so nah ist? Das dachten sich dieses Jahr auch vier Entwickler von synyx, und machten sich daher am 17.07. auf nach…

Code gluse Today’s post targets an API, which has been released on Dec. 11, 2006; the javax.scripting package [1] and a lot of good articles that have been written around…

I am a fresh employee at synyx. I started early in 2013 to work for the company and the Devoxx 2013 in Antwerp was my first conference with my new colleagues.…

Metrics by yammer provides runtime metrics and statistics for all kind of apps you can imagine. A lot of stuff is directly useable out of the box, for example measuring…

CoffeeScript Vert.x supports JavaScript through the Rhino JavaScript engine. Although JavaScript is a decent language once you get to know it, I prefer CoffeeScript, a language that compiles to JavaScript.…

Event-Driven Concurrency At synyx, we are looking at vert.x for an upcoming project where we are building a system that will need to scale under load. The tag-line of vert.x…

A few years ago, a good friend of mine installed a small photovoltaic system on his roof. I’m very exited about installing some solar panels on a roof and start…