Introduction

I am always on the lookout for new technologies, frameworks and other fun stuff, but have always lacked a place to try these out. So this is really a play ground for all the stuff I find interesting and want to try out more than just reading about the stuff.

I guess the problem has not been that I had nowhere to try this new fun stuff, but more that I newer kicked myself in the but and just tried it out :-)

Initial TODOs

• Move these TODOs to GitHub's Issues
  • Use nice colours and names for labels/milestones; there is a blog or something describing this, but cannot find it
• Use liquibase with a web-view with changes that must be applied
• Use the monitoring framework (gh/codahale/metrics) with scala version too
• Encrypt passwords with Jasypt which gives a web-view for entering the master password for decrypting
  • Integrate this with Spring Security
• Maybe use play 2, coding in scala or grails
• Use Vagrant for setting up environment locally
  • Also use it for integration testing
  • Maybe call Vagrant from gradle through JRuby
• Look at Spring reference web-app
• Spring Data for JPA access
• Be an OSGI app, run under Spring DM server, maybe Spring Dynamic Modules
• Have 2 web-apps talking to each other through Spring Integration
• Add a batch that uses Spring Batch
• Run under Spring tc server in development to use Spring Insight
• Add Jolokia for doing JMX-over-REST
• Try out Graphite graphing web-app
  • Use Etsy's statsd Node.js server for collecting
  • Call statsd from code, maybe create module for codahale's metric library that does this