Blog archive – page 2

• Retrieve Facebook profile data in Java: Apache Oltu

  Published on 25 Sept 2013

  In previous blogposts I explained how you can get Facebook profile data using Scribe or Spring Social for the OAuth 2 handling. In this article you can read how to get the profile using Apache Oltu (formerly known as Apache Amber). Update: browsing...

• Retrieve Facebook profile data in Java: Spring Social

  Published on 24 Sept 2013

  In the previous blogpost I explained how you can get Facebook profile data using Scribe. This blogpost will do the same for Spring Social. Setup The Maven dependency for Spring Social...

• Retrieve Facebook profile data in Java: Scribe

  Published on 23 Sept 2013

  In a series of blogposts I’ll describe how to retrieve a Facebook profile using several OAuth2 libraries for Java and Spring MVC. The first example is for Scribe. Setup The Maven dependency for...

• WidgetGap: a Wookie & Cordova (PhoneGap) mashup widget

  Published on 17 Oct 2012

  I knew PhoneGap as a tool to make native mobile apps from HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but had never used it myself. When I had to debug a PhoneGap application I read that the project you’re uploading is basically a W3C widget. I should have known from...

• Fronteers 2012

  Published on 7 Oct 2012

  Even though most of the web development I do now is in the backend, I started with HTML in 1995 before I learned programming Java. In 2010 I attended the Fronteers conference and came back excited about the new CSS and JavaScript tricks. This is why...

• Apache Rave Hackathon

  Published on 18 Jun 2012

  Last Wednesday was the first Apache Rave Hackathon in Utrecht, The Netherlands. We started with a little exercise because the fire alarm went off. There was a small accident in the railway station, so we had to leave the adjacent office building....