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aloha-editor · APR 26 · 2013

How to integrate the Aloha Wysiwyg Editor with Play! Framework

UPDATE: code checked in on github: https://github.com/poornerd/play-aloha

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crud · APR 19 · 2013

CRUD for Play! Framework 2

Update: yes, those are questions interspersed in the article… please answer in the comments! One of the main things I missed from Play 1.x is the CRUD Module. After reading posts on the forum about that...

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cloudbees · APR 08 · 2013

How deploy Play! Framework Apps with different configurations to Cloudbees

Have you ever wanted to deploy the same Application with multiple configurations to Cloudbees, without changing your environment variables each time while using the command line?

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cloudbees · MAR 27 · 2013

How to quickly start a Play! Framework Project and Deploy it in the Cloud

Jumpstart your Play! Framework 2.1 Java project, by checking out my project scaffold from GitHub: https://github.com/poornerd/playstartjava

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howto · MAR 05 · 2013

How to switch back and forth between Play! Framework Versions

When I first read about the Play Version Manager I first thought it was some sort of tool for versioning.

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esxi · MAR 01 · 2013

Our Energy Saving Server Farm

Ok, so 3 VMWare ESXi Servers running 20-30 Virtual Machines only slightly qualifies as a “Server Farm”, but we will be saving a ton of electricity (sorry Stadtwerke München ) at SiteForce.

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instagram · FEB 10 · 2013

Authenticating an Play! Framework Application via Oauth2 and Instagram using Secure Social

In an ongoing quest to make sure that I can easily start a Play! Framework 2.0 project and connect with another popular Social Website via their API, I have just created an Instagram Provider for the...

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FEB 07 · 2013

My Upgrade from Play! Framework 2.0.4 to 2.1.0 went smooth except for these few things

Today I decided to upgrade from Play Framework 2.0.4 to the newly released 2.1.0.

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FEB 01 · 2013

Using twitter4j with Play! Framework and Secure Social is this easy

During yesterday’s personal Hackathon, I started a project which I might introduce here sometime.  But the coolest revelation was (again) how easy it was to get up and running.

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iOS · JAN 24 · 2013

Demo generating iOS Passbook Pass with passkit4j and Play! Framework

I recently stumbled across passkit4j with which it is not that hard to create a Passbook pass – assuming you have an Apple Developer Account, and can figure how to do the whole provisioning and adding...

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