Let’s do Cloud Programming! Part 4: ScalaIDE & Part 5: Conclusion
Let’s do Cloud Programming! Part 4: ScalaIDE ScalaIDE is a completed student project from the university of applied science in Constance, Germany. The project was part of a study of “Software...
View ArticleFeature Detection: Introducing Modernizr (or, how to play Flash video on iOS...
Feature detection has become the buzzword for an up-to-date front-end developer. If I remember the days in the beginning where browser detection was the last opportunity to get some crappy Internet...
View ArticleBehavior Driven Development with Behat & Co – more than just testing?
The PHP tool Behat has been drawing attention to itself for some time now. Within the PHP community it has caused a growing awareness for the topic Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Even though there...
View ArticleRich snippets with HTML5 microdata in Google search results
I’ve seen many crappy websites and all sorts of usability nightmares in my time. And we all know the websites with those 90′s animated GIFs on purple backgrounds. The astonishing thing is, that some of...
View ArticleeZ Publish 5 – Kilimanjaro now released
This is finally the moment we’ve been waiting for: A new version of eZ Publish has been officially released! As a company heavily involved with the implementation of eZ Publish based systems, we follow...
View ArticleSymfony2 Insights – Assetic
Those of you who work with a lot of static content like stylesheets, JavaScripts and images will to be familiar with this problem: management, compression and integration is often not easy. This is...
View ArticleBehind the scenes
What happens behind the scenes at YMC? On our new micro blog “Inside YMC” on Tumblr, our team share their experiences and thoughts. What does YMC do on the moon? How has our new chill-out lounge been...
View ArticleA Wishlist for eZ Publish 5 [Infographic]
The Christmas season is underway and the YMC office is full of festive spirit; snow is falling, and the Glühwein is flowing (strictly after work of course!). We’re celebrating the end of this year and...
View ArticleThe top 5 challenges of BDD with Behat/Mink – Best practices needed
While I have written a lot about the concept behind the tool Behat in an earlier blog post (“BDD as an agile method”), I want to deal with how to put automated web acceptance testing with Behat and...
View ArticleAgile Dev Practices 2013 – Review
When I heard about the Agile Dev Practices 2013 – subtitled “The Conference for Agile Developers” – I was really delighted: Finally there is another instance of these rare conferences dealing with...
View ArticleVagrant – Automated Development Environment (Part 1: Introduction)
Most developers have probably faced at least one of these problems: A new team member started to work on a project and needs to get it running on his machine so he can work on it. That makes the new …...
View ArticleCloudStack & Symfony2
Cloud-based platforms, for example CloudStack, provide an API for provisioning and managing infrastructure on demand. You have the option of either using existing implementations [1] or developing your...
View ArticleVagrant – Automated Development Environment (Part 2: Example)
In the last part, we created a bare minimum Virtual Machine with Vagrant but with just a minimal Linux environment, it’s neither very interesting nor useful. This time, we’re going to actually do...
View ArticleBuild a Better Customer Experience Model with Big Data
As a topic of digital marketing, customer experience management is the intersection of many different disciplines, including: design, marketing, branding and interactions. Besides the business and...
View ArticleHello Europe! Hadoop has landed.
Last week we were in Amsterdam at the Hadoop Summit 2013. This was the first Hadoop Summit in Europe, so things are picking up momentum over here too. #HadoopSummit great that #hadoop has landed on the...
View ArticleHannibal: New Features and the Future
Newest Features A few months have passed since I last worked on Hannibal, but last week I had the opportunity to do so. I worked on a few issues in GitHub and thought about new features for the tool....
View ArticleYMC talk at the 7th Swiss Big Data User Group Meeting
The next Swiss Big Data User Group Meeting is on Monday next week, for the first time at a new location at IBM Switzerland. There are a lot of interesting talks on schedule: “Big Data: Adoption Roadmap...
View ArticleYMC Announcing Hannibal Mobile App
YMC is excited to announce the upcoming release of the Hannibal Mobile app for Android. If you haven’t heard of Hannibal yet, it’s a web application to assist DevOps in the management of HBase...
View ArticleExpansion of the portfolio: YMC repositions itself
YMC strategically repositions itself and expands the existing service of Web Solutions by two complementary areas: Big Data Analytics and Mobile Applications. Big Data YMC has acquired the startup...
View ArticleYMC talk at the 7th Swiss Big Data User Group Meeting
The next Swiss Big Data User Group Meeting is on Monday next week, for the first time at a new location at IBM Switzerland. There are a lot of interesting talks on schedule: “Big Data: Adoption Roadmap...
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