Java One 2015
See what John Shepard noted from the 2015 Java One conference sessions he attended.
An Angular2 walkthough using Plunker – Get started NOW
So you want to hack around with Angular 2 but you don’t have a build environment? No big deal, the Plunker web IDE has just the template for you!
Hitchiker's Guide to ECMASCript 2015/ES6 and TypeScript for the Angular2 beginner
Learn about how to write code in ES6 or TypeScript using tools such as babel, babel-node, typescript’s tsc compiler and more.
Angular2 – Developing your Applications with Modern JS and Tools (Series)
So you want to learn Angular2? Learn from us. We’re putting together a series of blog posts on the matter, starting with this introduction, covering some of the major features of Angular2 and language options.
Microbenchmarking Scala with JMH
Many times we find that there are multiple ways to write a piece of code and sometimes the choice may be determined by which implementation executes fastest. We might want to have a shootout between the different implementations to find out which one is fastest. The Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH) tool can help us get an experimental answer to this type of question. The sbt-jmh plugin makes it very easy to execute JMH tests on Scala or Java code in…
Form-Based Login for Java WebSocket Client
Needing a Java-based WebSocket client, I started with Tyrus, the reference implementation for the Java API for WebSocket. Writing a simple Java WebSocket client with Tyrus went well enough — until I went to turn security on. The Web App I’m connecting to uses form-based login, and out of the box the only authentication support is for HTTP BASIC or DIGEST. But with a little custom code, connecting via form-based login turned out to be possible. Form-Based Login Mechanism First,…
Upgrading a WIMBoot Machine to Windows 10
Needing to drive a few touchscreen kiosks, I found myself in possession of some compute stick type devices. These are tiny but full-fledged computers, with an Atom CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and a 32 GB SSD. They shipped with Windows 8.1 with Bing. Naturally, I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. There were a couple wrinkles. WIMBoot In poking around the existing Windows install, I found that some of the numbers didn’t add up. When I finally viewed the…
Better Scala Tuples With shapeless
Shapeless provides a little syntax sugar that makes a standard Tuple behave like a collection. Learn more about this API in a tutorial by Scala and Akka trainer, mentor and consultant Michael Pigg.
Basic Akka Actors
Anyone working on concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM should be familiar with Akka. Akka is an implementation of the Actor model that can be used from Scala or Java applications to provide a concurrency model that is designed from the ground up for systems spanning multiple machines. Defining an Actor The key abstraction in Akka is the Actor, which provides behavior and can store state. In Akka, actors are guaranteed to be run in a single-threaded illusion, which…
Rod Biresch – Blinking the LED with machine code on the W65C2655XSB microcontroller developer board
Rod Biresch, one of our Software Engineers, has posted another blog entry on working with the W65C2655XSB microcontroller board. This time, he shows us how we can use machine code to blink the LED, and how it translates to assembly language.