Let’s kick-off my dev blogging year by looking back onto the exciting three days I had last week in Amsterdam. I had the opportunity to attend the frontenddeveloperlove and vuejs.amsterdam conferences.

In order to build high quality software products, unit testing is an essential building block. However, it is still not uncommon that large software projects don’t implement unit testing properly.

When working with languages like JavaScript or CSS many bad things can happen in your code which are probably not that obvious. Sometimes there is not even a clear error or exception and bugs then often stay hidden.

Positioning elements on a web page properly has already caused a lot of headaches for web developers. I am no exception either. It has not happened once that I fiddled around with floating of block elements, positioning with inline-block and using the n-th clear statement to bring everything back to the normal HTML layout flow.

Every software developer has their own selection of tools, frameworks, libraries and helper programs to ease their productivity in daily work-life. For many devs it would be a nightmare to install and configure all their things again in case their computer breaks at some point.

Recently, I used some time to take a look into ember which is one of the popular JavaScript frameworks out there. The creators of Ember.js describe it as a framework for creating ambitious web applications.

Git is the most popular version control system currently. As a software developer in a team, no matter whether you work on websites, backend services, mobile apps or any other piece of software, your probably use it every day.

Asynchronous execution of actions is a common concept in nowadays web applications. Especially the JavaScript world makes heavy use of it.

It’s a typical requirement in nowadays internet businesses to have a beautifully designed and appealing website which catches the eye of a customer and as a result leads to an increased conversion rate.

There are UI and UX enthusiasts who honor the power of it to paint the web while there are developers who take a huge sigh when new changes to the existing codebase have to be introduced. I am talking about CSS and it’s controversial perspectives among developers.

In my previous blog post I introduced the Weka GUI, a data mining and machine learning tool written in Java by the University of Waikato in New Zealand, to you. If you read this post I hope you got a good overview on the capabilities of Weka and be now curious to see how you can use it in a Java project.

Have you ever heard of the tiny flightless birds called Weka, which have its roots in New Zealand. Probably not. However, what you as a software and technology interested person pretty sure have heard of, these days even more often than ever before, is the buzzword Machine Learning.

Since its release by Google in 2009, AngularJS has quickly grown to one of the most popular open-source Javascript frameworks and is nowadays the leading framework when it comes to client-side rendered web apps. With version 2, the developers decided to implement the project completely new from scratch and as a result the new Angular differs in a lot of parts from the old one.

If you are familiar with nowadays web development, you most probably have already worked with frameworks like AngularJS or EmberJS. Today I want to introduce you a Javascript framework I came along recently which is not that popular as the two I mentioned and you might not have heard of so far, namely PhantomJS.

In the previous blog post I introduced the static site generator Jekyll in a nutshell to you and showed you how to get started with it very fast. If you are not familiar with Jekyll and have not yet read that post, I encourage you to do so.

Starting up with the first post on my personal tech blog with a detailed insight into how I actually built this blog seems to be a good idea in my opinion. Even more, since it is not a typical Wordpress blog as you can see it a thousand times on the Internet.