Amazon Mobile Analytics can be used to collect a lot of information. It is very easy to create charts in a custom dashboard but the easy of use means that…
In a recent project we replaced an existing webapp with a new implementation. The old app got around 300 requests/second so we wanted to make sure that the new implementation…
We have a stand alone Java application (called MyApp here) that runs an embedded Jetty HTTP server that we wanted to monitor. It was surprisingly easy to get basic information…
In this post I describe how we reduced memory usage with over 40% by changing the Redis data representation. Redis is very easy to get started with and quick as…
Module pattern When your application grows it can easily become messy with JavaScript scattered everywhere. There isn't any built in functionality for organizing scripts in JavaScript (though adding modules as…
I recently ran into a problem with a webpage rendering different on two computers running the same version of Internet Explorer. For some reason one of them rendered the page…
The built in support for detecting proxies in Java is rather limited. In a recent project I ran into problems due to the lack of visible support for PAC (even…
In a project I'm working on the end-users need to be able to upload rather large files (up to 8GB) from a web browser. Preferably the users should be able…
When you have a combo box with lots of items it is convenient for the end-user to be able to select an item by typing the first few characters of…