Building an Atlassian Connect add-on
As Atlassian experts, we’re invested in keeping up to speed with all the hip new things Atlassian delivers. The Connect platform is certainly one of those hip new things. But it’s more than that…...
View ArticleStatic dynamic webpages with Baked.JS
Static dynamic webpages, seems like a contradiction? You want to enable non-techies to make changes to the pages of the website, but you don’t want to go through all the problems you’re going to have...
View ArticleMy Application Is More Enterprise Than Yours
Before you start reading, I must warn you that this article is not intended to advise you. It is just a collection of thoughts on the topic of enterprise software. What, why and when? Pick a (Java)...
View ArticleExternal Resources Are Unreliable
Developing software is one thing, keeping it up and running in production is a whole different challenge. When your software is running in production it will be used in ways you never thought about,...
View ArticleJava LDAP connection pooling
One of our software platforms uses LDAP to manage users and organisations. All application servers and webservers connect to the LDAP servers to verify user credentials and such. Unfortunately, after...
View ArticleImproved releasing with Maven and Git
Back in 2012 I posted the blogpost Maven release plugin setup guide for Git on setting up the Maven release plugin. Now Maven 3 has been out for a while, so it is time to review my findings. The...
View ArticleUsing Pedestal with Trapperkeeper
Intro I am currently working on Dash, developed with Clojure. For this project I recently started using two libraries together: Pedestal and Trapperkeeper. Clojure enables me to pick and combine the...
View ArticleWhy we work the way we do
Our core business is software development and we’re good at it. It sounds arrogant, but we know our job and are proud of our work. Our customers say we are professionals and we agree. We listen to our...
View ArticleSafeguarding ambitious growth plans towards the year 2020
Recently, we got a performance benchmark assignment via one of our valued partners, a worldwide leader in IT research and advisory. One of their clients had very ambitious growth plans towards the year...
View ArticleCross-platform certificate access with Cordova part 1 – Android
Recently, I have been working on a project concerning digital signatures. One very important part of this project involves setting a signature from a mobile device. Since our users are divided between...
View ArticleUsing SkateJS in our add-ons
One of our newly released add-ons, Flag Content for Confluence, was built in a such a way that it integrates with the Likes plugin of Confluence, but it was not dependent on it. When testing the add-on...
View ArticleYou had me at Hello, World!
At the first ever ASAS Night, I attended a presentation by Wouter Lagerweij on refactoring / rebuilding software projects. If you are interested, you can find basically the same presentation on his...
View ArticleLife after JSON
After we all got hooked on XML, we were wondering what was next. Of course we all went with JSON because the minute you see it, you know it’s better than XML in a lot of situations. Now that we …...
View ArticleAtlassian add-on development: Why we started over and chose for Cloud
Last year we started working on a new add-on for Atlassian JIRA. After months of work we decided to drop everything and start over on a relatively new platform, JIRA Cloud. This was a radical decision...
View ArticleGet more out of Bamboo with Docker – Part 1
If you search in Google for Docker and Bamboo and skip the Atlassian links, then you will find numerous links on how to create a Docker container for a Bamboo remote agent. Nice to know but what is the...
View ArticleArchitecture vs. Agile; a different philosophy?
Recently I was invited to join a discussion forum to discuss the relationship between architecture and an agile software development process. During the talk with the person that invited me, we talked...
View ArticleEen software audit: Wanneer en waarom?
Soms kan het voorkomen dat er, als gevolg van hooggespannen verwachtingen of veranderende marktomstandigheden, noodzaak ontstaat om eens kritisch te kijken naar de staat van een softwareproduct. Het is...
View ArticleCross-platform certificate access with Cordova part 2 – iOS
In my previous post we took a look at accessing Android’s installed certificates through a Cordova plugin. Creating a Cordova plugin and only supporting Android hardly makes sense, so this post will...
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