Talking about the value of immutability ... for deployment platforms and innovation
2013-11-12 Software-Engineering Management Culture Conferences
I am just back from presenting a talk at FutureStack in SFO. Very interesting trip. Got very positive feedback on what we are doing. Did meet a lot of ... Read More
To become or not to become ... a Sunday with Scala and Actors
2013-10-07 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Scala
It is Sunday, the sun is shining ... in Ireland!!! What do you do? Right: You get your laptop and finally start to get your head around the actor ... Read More
Charting some KPIs ... how hard can it be?
2013-05-10 Software-Engineering Management Culture Nerdy
In the last couple of weeks I was working on an initiative to make all the Gilt Tech KPIs available in one place. There are lots of dashboard ... Read More
About broken windows and software gardening ... - Thoughts from The Pragmatic Programmer
2013-02-16 Software-Engineering Books Culture Thoughts
These days I am writing more source code again (mostly Scala) and decided to (re)read a couple of books to refresh some thoughts and ideas and ... Read More
Sometimes small things make a big difference ... using Source Code Pro with Emacs
2012-11-10 Software-Engineering Nerdy
<outing alarm>I love my emacs.</outing alarm> Sometimes small things can make a big difference. Like a dot. You can put it at the end of ... Read More
Teaching Scala @ TCD ... back to the roots
2012-11-10 Software-Engineering Conferences Scala Functional-Programming
20 years ago I used to teach object-oriented programming (based on Eiffel) at my old university in Germany. This week I got the chance to experience a ... Read More
A starting point for ... Apache Felix, OSGi, Scala, Sbt
2012-09-16 Software-Engineering OSGi Scala Functional-Programming
It is not a secret ... I like OSGi and Scala ... and therefore it was only a question of time until I started to wonder, if there is anything that ... Read More
Machine Learning at Gilt - "Maven-izing" a/the Apache Mahout tutorial
2011-12-11 Software-Engineering Machine-Learning
If you work for Gilt Tech than you WILL (sooner or later ... somehow) get involved in our Machine Learning and Recommendation efforts. Our ... Read More
Cloud Computing - A practical guide for the common user
2011-05-01 Software-Engineering Cloud-Computing Thoughts
These days (and especially after the Amazon EC2 outage :)) everybody is talking about cloud computing. It seems you cannot be sexy, if you do not ... Read More
Maven, Flex/Air and Android - Trinity or Bermuda Triangle
2010-12-19 Software-Engineering Mobile
Partially for professional reasons, partially out of plain, naked, old-fashioned curiosity (and also triggered by the Adobe announcement that Adobe ... Read More