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How to avoid refactoring in your first React.js application

December 27, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

Popularity of React.js is growing pretty fast and it seems like React became a compact and beautiful way of how to develop your applications. I have worked on a side project and felt like it is right time to try React. During development of my first project in React I had to do several refactorings. In this short blog post I will try to point out some pitfalls, which you should take care of if you want to avoid refactoring in your first React.js application.

Web development

My first week with Atom editor

December 26, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

In my previous post I summed up my favorite packages for the Sublime Text editor. I use the editor for minor edits in front end development (mostly in JavaScript). Atom is a new promising editor developed and maintained by Github. The first major version of Atom was released more than a half year ago and I thought now is the right time to try this editor.

Web development

My Sublime Text packages for front-end web development

December 25, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

Sublime text editor is my favourite and one of the most powerful editors for front-end web development (HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, React.js, ES6). It’s super fast and highly customizable with tons of plugins, which gives extra functionalities to the editor. Currently, I sometimes use the Sublime text editor for small edits and this short blog post can help someone to find interesting plugins.

Java

First steps with messaging in Java

December 25, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

In this article, I will introduce some messaging concepts and try to emphasize some insights which are important for beginners. At the end of this article I will show a short example with ActiveMQ.

Java

First steps with GWT and Errai messaging

September 29, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

When I was new at my current job, I got a task to realize server push messages from server to client. The application used GWT and my supervisor recommended to me to use Errai framework. At that time I had no experience with either GWT or Errai.

Java

Creating your first Vaadin Portlet for Liferay

September 29, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

In this short blog post I just want to show how to create a basic Vaadin portlet for the Liferay platform, which from version 6 includes support for the Vaadin framework.

Java

Legacy java applications development in Eclipse

September 28, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

Time to time you have a java project, which uses an old version of the JRE compiler. Installing old java versions on OS X is quite tricky and not necessary. You can use the compiler compliance level feature in Eclipse IDE. This setting just tells the compiler to pretend it’s a different version of Java.

Java

How to deploy a .war on Tomcat on OSX

September 28, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

In this blog post I will start with something simple. These instructions are for beginners who have no experience with Java and don’t know how to deploy a java web application archive file (.war) on Tomcat on OS X (should work on Linux too).

Blog

Hello world!

August 19, 2015May 21, 2019
by Andrej Gajdos

Hi folks, and welcome to my blog! As this is my first blog post ever and one of my first programs when learning to program was probably a “Hello, World!”, I decided to use the same title.

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