Voronoi Fractal with D3.js
I’ve been very busy the last couple of months. Started a new project at Philips, started writing on D3.js for Packt, and besides that participating in two st...
Dynamic component loading with Angular2: replace $compile
Note that this has become outdated… again. But it has become part of the standard Angular distribution. Please look at the latest angular documentation here:...
Analyzing swearing in movies Part 1: Swears per minute
In this short article I’d like to explain the process I took to create some simple D3.js visualizations based on the number of swears per minute in movies. I...
First steps with Angular 2: 8 cool features
I’ve been doing some work the last couple of weeks with Angular2. I really like it. Not just because it uses typescript, but also because it feels really nat...
Scalaz features for everyday usage part 3: State Monad, Writer Monad and lenses
In this article in the mini series on Scalaz, we'll look at a couple of additional monads and patterns available in Scalaz. Once again, we'll look at stuff t...
Getting started with scala-native
This is just a quick recollection of the steps I've taken to get my own helloworld running using scala-native. I haven't really started looking at scala-nati...
Render 3D Star Wars: The Force Awakens models in Blender and Three.js
Recently video copilot released a free set of high-definition professional grade 3D models (which you can download for yourself from here). This model pack, ...
Service Discovery with Docker and Consul: part 2
So, welcome to the second part of the series on using Consul for service discovey together with docker. In this second article we'll look at how you can use ...
Scalaz features for everyday usage part 2: Monad Transformers and the Reader Monad
For the second article of the "Scalaz features for everyday usage" we'll look at the subject of Monad transformers and the Reader monad.Let's start with Mona...
Scalaz features for everyday usage part 1: Typeclasses and Scala extensions
Most of you have probably heard of the great Javascript book: Javascript the good parts. In the same light I'd like to show some stuff from Scalaz which are ...
Service Discovery with Docker and Consul: part 1
During the last year I've become a big fan of using Consul for all things related to service discovery. If you're doing microservices you've probably ran int...
Presentation: Service discovery in a microservice architecture
I recently gave a presentation on how you can use Consul (http://consul.io) for all your service discovery needs in a microservice architecture. The present...
Developing Scala in Atom with Ensime
When I began Java software development way back in the time of Java 1.3 I remember using JDeveloper for a time, before switching to the early versions of Ecl...
Website scraping using Selenium, Docker and Chrome with Extensions.
For a specific project we needed a quick way to get the content of a specific URL and check whether a word was present in the text there. If all we had to s...
Create a Slack Docker proxy in Go - Part 2
In the previous article we had a look at how you could easily create a slack-docker-proxy using go and a couple of small libraries. In this second article we...
Create a Slack Docker proxy in Go - Part 1
Last year I had the opportunity to work with lots of cool tools and technologies. A couple of those were go, slack and docker. We pretty much use slack for a...