The container management system Docker is quite useful for running services or applications in a controlled, isolated environment. In a lot of situations it is also useful to have directories inside a docker container mapped to a local folder on the host… more

Since the release of the newest Debian version 9 (Codename “Stretch”) in June 2017, most system administrators using this distribution will upgrade their systems eventually. One of the changes in the new version that first caught my eye, is that you can’t… more

When you build frontend interfaces for the web, you often have to provide support for different languages, locales and timezones (generally called internationalization or short i18n in computer science). With Angular2 you can use the module “ng2-translate” to provide browser language detection… more

We have decided now to publish our free Software package on Maven Central under the namespace “com.illucit“. This way the packages can be used by everyone without having to declare a separate repository in Maven or SBT. This software packages also contain… more

Some days ago, the new Angular2 RC3 release candidate (and also some days earlies RC2) has been released. Again, some changes were made to the Angular2 structure that everyone needs to update in their Angular2 applications to become compatible to the new version…. more

In Angular2 you can use “pipes” (in earlier versions called “filters”) to adjust data bindings to given situations. Then name comes from the “pipe symbol” (|) that is also known from Unix/Linux command shells to manipulate data streams. In Angular 2, the… more

In this article I want to show how to use the “Reactive Events” library RxJS to handle asynchronous event processing in AngularJS2. In many Javascripts frameworks asynchronous events are handled by either providing a callback function to be called, or be retrieving… more

In the past we often had some software (e.g. web application inside an application  server) that needed to be deployed on multiple servers, different stages (development, staging, production) and even on some machines hosted by a customer, but managed by ourselves. To… more

When you are building applications or libraries in the Scala programming language, you will most likely use a tool like “SBT” (Scala Build Tool) or “Lightbend Activator” (which is an extended distribution of SBT) to configure, build and package your project. These… more