Take your webapp offline
In a previous project, we needed information from farmers about what crops they had on their land. As a digital-first service, this was all done via a web UI. Having taken the app out to user testing, we found that …
London DevOps Meetup – 11th June 2015
I was at the London DevOps Meetup last night, graciously hosted by Facebook at their London HQ. We had three chats – one about how Facebook ensures it’s running, one about Facebook’s data centres, and one from Google about how …
Maven inside Docker’d build agents
I previously posted about how you can use Jenkins in a Docker container, and then use Jenkins Swarm to create build agents automatically? There was an issue with the build agent which caused Maven to download dependencies from localhost. You’d …
A training records app using Neo4J
Neo4J is possibly the most well-known graph-based databases. That means it’s not your traditional tables, columns and rows – instead, it stores things as nodes and relationships amongst them. Having watched a presentation about it at QCon London 2015, I …
The Ever Increasing Complexity of Done
“We’ll just edit our definition of done on the Wiki and add that to it” – anonymous All the agile projects I’ve worked with have a concept of “Done” at the work item level. For some projects, it’s gloriously printed, …
Hosting your SBT-built Java project on RedHat’s OpenShift platform
If you’re more of an OpenShift than Heroku fan, here’s how you can get your SBT-built Java project onto OpenShift. OpenShift has fewer dynos (“gears”) at the free tier (only 3) but they idle after 24 hours instead of 1, …
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Getting your SBT-built Java project onto Heroku
I love Heroku for quickly deploying and testing your applications. The free usage tier makes it no cost for simple applications, and the Git Push To Deploy mechanism is a great way to test your build environment isn’t using cached …
Using Jenkins in a Docker container
I remember being at a DoxLon meetup back in the days of Docker 1.0, and one of the presenters said that they’d found Jenkins leaked resources so was unsuitable for containerization. Happy news – there’s an official Jenkins image.
Scala Play – adding a Login Form
Following on from the previous post about Scala Play, here’s how to add a login form.
Scala Play from scratch
If DropWizard excels at RESTful webservices, then the Play Framework is often the counterpart which provides an HTML front-end. Although it’s got both Java and Scala support, the Scala support seems to be more active. Here’s an introduction without using …