Async Servlets
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet 3.0 was the possibility to decouple an...
View ArticleJay Librarian – Jayway’s Book Management System
It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our company. We have had...
View ArticleFlexbox Centering Cheatsheet
This last year I have had the pleasure of using Flexbox regularly at work. I have had some trouble with memorizing the relationship between flex-direction, align-items and justify-content, specifically...
View ArticleBrowser support does not have to be a binary choice
I have more often than not been faced with the following scenario; a client, a colleague or maybe a project manager will ask the old-as-dirt question: “What browsers should be supported in this...
View ArticleWeb development with Elixir
I created a small hobby project, an online comic book reader, using the fairly new programming language Elixir and a framework called Phoenix which I knew nothing about. These are my experiences and...
View ArticleLooking at UX trends
Now when 2014 is closing we took the time and gather a few Jaywayers to look at UX trends found in ongoing projects. This is our very personal thoughts and reflections of these trends and the...
View ArticleTesting of hybrid mobile applications
In my latest project I was responsible for test and quality of a hybrid mobile application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. The plan was to have a simple native “wrapper” for the different platforms...
View ArticleGzipping in Pedestal + Jetty 9.3
There is a sample in the Pedestal repo for how to get responses gzip compressed by using the GzipFilter from Jetty 9.2. This filter has, however, been removed in Jetty 9.3 and perhaps you want to...
View Article6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For
During the last two years, I’ve heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I’ve done some thinking myself about the technique. My...
View ArticleHow to override styled-components styling with external CSS
Styled-components is a wonderful way to style the components in your React project, but using it together with existing CSS can be a bit tricky – especially if you want the CSS styles to override the...
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