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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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SecureSocial · JAN 18 · 2013

Here it is, the Xing Oauth1 Provider for the Play Framework – Secure Social plugin

I wanted to try some things with XING, and since I have been using Secure Social with Play Framework alot recently, I decided to add a new provider to the Secure Social Project after seeing how...

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arduino · JAN 17 · 2013

What you need to know about the Internet of Things

The past few years I have spent some time using various API’s in the internet. Who hasn’t? Companies like http://mashery.com list thousands of API’s.  The interconnection of these API’s is becoming a commodity – just look at...

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PlayFramework · JAN 10 · 2013

FoursquareProvider for SecureSocial and PlayFramework

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ebean · JAN 04 · 2013

Play Framework 2.0, Ebean Lazy Loading and Object References that are null

I began having sporadic problems in my Play Framework 2.0.4 application where the attributes of referenced objects were null.

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PlayFramework · JAN 02 · 2013

Play 2 Framework and Secure Social Example Setup

If you want to add Authentication to a Play! Framework 2 project, Secure Social is the way to go.  I had some problems installing it despite the documentation and examples.  Here are my tips based on...

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DEC 15 · 2011

How I rolled my own Dropbox like sharing with SparkleShare

I have been looking for over a year for a way to have the simple syncing between computers like DropBox does, but on my own server, without space limits. I also just started using git this...

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MAR 15 · 2011

Using git with Spring Roo and the git addon

Spring Roo finally has an installable git addon (since Version 1.1.2) which will setup, config and auto commit your files to git for you.

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