
Low code alternative: rapid application development with open-source software
Custom SoftwareTesting ideas in the market is crucial at the beginning of every business and especially software-as-a-service and e-business need fast time to market. What you want is to prove your concept and have a minimum viable product (MVP) available in the internet as a prototype. If you see it’s a working business then you scale it.

Trading Systems
Custom Software, Java Competence
Trading System Development - Part 1
I assume you know programming (maybe you are even a professional developer) and you have that trading itch. You probably have been trading manually with your broker here and there, but decided to step…

4 Business Benefits of Outsourcing Custom Software Development
Custom Software, OutsourcingCustom Software is needed when special business requirements can’t be met by proprietary software on the market.

Model-Driven Infrastructure for Java Projects
Custom Software, Java CompetenceJava software-development projects are our daily business. For us it's a common task to setup different environments for dealing with the specific needs of our customers. While we treat every customer individually we want to keep setup time…

Going Pivotal
Custom Software, Java CompetenceRecently we deployed several applications to Pivotal Cloud-Foundry (CF). Deployment was pretty smooth for our Grails and Spring-based applications. Because we had issues deploying JDK-7 applications to heroku as it is using jdk 1.6 as default…

IllegalStateException in Amazon SDK for Java
Custom Software, Java CompetenceIn one of our projects we need to communicate with Amazon S3. We use the SDK for Java provided by Amazon itself. The library incorporates Apache HttpComponents for managing HTTP and associated protocols. We noticed there was an issue…

Groovy XmlSlurper for HTML Parsing
Custom Software, Java CompetenceVery common task: you need to parse XML. When using groovy there is groovy.util.XmlSlurper for that. We know that HTML is just a special XML - but when you have to parse from online ressources you have to assume that it's never well-formed.…

Grails Mail-Plugin and Custom EmailerService
Custom Software, Java CompetenceJust had an old project that got both Grails Mail-plugin installed and also a custom EmailerService implemented. Problem was that both approaches are configuring a org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl in two…

Application-Modernization with JMockit and JUnit
Custom Software, Java Competence, Outsourcing, Quality and TestWhen working with legacy-code it is often a good strategy to start increasing test-coverage. But writing tests without changing the legacy-code seems difficult to achieve in the most cases. Often it is enough to execute internal modules in isolation…