Data Lab @ codecentric

How to use Wikipedia’s full dump as corpus for text classification with...

Wikipedia is not only a never ending rabbit hole of information. You start with an article on a topic you want to know about, and you end up hours later with an article that has nothing to do with the original topic you’ve looked up. And all the time...

• Big Data
• IoT
• Machine Learning
• NLP
• Data

26.3.2013 | 1 Minuten Lesezeit

Graphlr: indexing antlr3 generated Java AST through a Neo4j graph

While working on my Sonar fork which allows to simulate refactoring without actually touching source files I have once again realized what a PITA it is to traverse the antlr-generated Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Java. The mechanism is absolutely ...

• Software architecture
• Java
• Database
• NoSQL
• Software development

28.6.2012 | 2 Minuten Lesezeit

How to simulate refactoring / restructuring of Java code with Sonar

During my IT life I had to analyze many code bases – something that you would call an architecture review. Or some might call it a part of architecture review. As for me, I don’t believe in reviews without actively touching the source code. Touching ...

• Agile
• Software architecture
• CI/CD
• Agile methods
• Software development
• Java

23.5.2012 | 5 Minuten Lesezeit

travis-ci, or how continuous integration will become fun again

First of all, I need to say that I definitely will not compare tools in this post. This usually leads to nothing but flame wars and too much blog moderation effort. What I want is to show my view at an emerging tool / approach / idea. That clarified,...

• Agile
• CI/CD

8.5.2012 | 7 Minuten Lesezeit

Distributed automated acceptance testing with Robot and Chef

I just go on working on some edge topics around the Robot Framework and blogging about it. I’ve assume you’re familiar with Chef and Robot Framework as well as VirtualBox and Vagrant. For the basic setup, I suggest my previous post on a similar topic...

18.1.2012 | 3 Minuten Lesezeit

SoapUI test library for the Robot Framework

I have started implementing the SoapUI test library for the Robot Framework  – sources are here: https://github.com/pavlobaron/robotframework-soapuilibrary . The version 0.1 yet cannot do very much of what SoapUI offers, but you can run one project with...

• Testing

31.12.2011 | 1 Minuten Lesezeit

Provisioning of Java web applications using Chef, VirtualBox and Vagrant

Question: I want to use virtualization and configuration management to automate deployment of a Java web application and infrastructure provisioning. How can I try it real quick and set up someting I can reuse later? Answer: try it locally. You need ...

• CI/CD

28.12.2011 | 6 Minuten Lesezeit

Wer nicht schnell und oft genug ausliefert, den bestraft die Konkurrenz

Heutzutage laufen die Uhren mindestens 100 mal schneller, als noch vor wenigen Jahren. Ja, das tun sie, zumindest wenn es darum geht, den extrem wählerischen Kunden da draußen im Web zu erreichen, anzusprechen und ihm auch noch ein interessantes Angebot...

7.12.2011 | 3 Minuten Lesezeit

GOTO Prague 2011

This year, the GOTO conference (http://gotocon.com/ ) family has become bigger and added a wonderful new member location: Prague (https://gotocon.com/prague-2011/). I visited the conference and am also very proud of having given 2 talks there. The conference...

• Community

25.11.2011 | 1 Minuten Lesezeit

Interview auf der W-JAX zum Thema „Big Data“

Ich wurde auf der W-JAX zum Thema „Big Data“ interviewt. Hier ist das Video: http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/news/Big-Data-und-die-Moeglichkeiten-061002.html

• Big Data

11.11.2011 | 1 Minuten Lesezeit

So … I say “hello”

I guess, I was in none of my previous job changes so intensely bombarded with questions about where I’m going to next. So, now I finally reveal the secret, if it is not obvious from the URL of this post: starting in November, I’m going to ……………………………...

31.10.2011 | 1 Minuten Lesezeit