JavaScript If you want to start using Webpack as a module bundler for your React application, you can find great tutorials with detailed instructions (1, 2, 3). In this short blog post I want to share my webpack config, which is based on these tutorials.
Read more “Setting up Webpack for ES6, React, SASS and Bootstrap” JavaScript A friend of mine organises a meetup about web technologies and asked me if I want to speak about React.js. My last presentation was about my master thesis and I thought it is a great opportunity to renew my presentation skills (not sure if I have some).
Read more “My first public speech – How to use React.js” Web development Every software engineer goes through a lot of IDEs and editors (Eclipse, Netbeans, Sublime, Atom, Brackets, …) and all of them have their bottlenecks: performance, insufficient error highlighting, code completion, refactoring methods or high memory usage.
Read more “Increasing productivity in JetBrains IDEs” JavaScript 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.
Read more “How to avoid refactoring in your first React.js application” Web development 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.
Read more “My first week with Atom editor” Web development 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.
Read more “My Sublime Text packages for front-end web development” Java 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.
Read more “First steps with messaging in Java” Java 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.
Read more “First steps with GWT and Errai messaging” Java 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.
Read more “Creating your first Vaadin Portlet for Liferay” Java 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.
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