Debugging tests is always tricky. Debugging Selenium Tests executed with JBehave is harder. The JBehave tests are executed and stack traces are written to logs. In many cases, you can't reproduce the case or you need to fiddle around, where to set your breakpoint. This is not effective. This is annoying. I want to present you a slightly different and improved approach for debugging Selenium/Selenide tests. You will need either CDI, a Spring Context or Google Guice as prerequisite.

Some years ago I moved into my own home. At that time I had the idea to setup christmas lights in our garden. Maybe not as large as Carson Williams setup, but at least something. And well, you know, it grew from year to year. Now I came to the point where I want give you control over the lights.

I released lettuce 3.0.2. This is a bugfix release fixing a memory leak in pubsub.

This release contains:

Fixes

• Memory leak #21, #22

Other

• Streamline build and release

Links

• Release on Github
• Artifact overview on Maven Central
• Download lettuce 3.0.2.Final
• Wiki
• Maven Site (Javadoc)

Maven coordinates:

<dependency>
    <groupId>biz.paluch.redis</groupId>
    <artifactId>lettuce</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>biz.paluch.redis</groupId>
    <artifactId>lettuce</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
    <classifier>shaded</classifier>
</dependency>

Any feedback is appreciated or create issues on GitHub.

Some time ago, I wrote about finding the right NoSQL data store. It depends pretty much on what you want to do. After a series of tests I finally have some results I want to share. My goal: Find the most appropriate NoSQL data store for our project's use case.

Requirements

The requirements is to parse XML files which are stored on a storage system and put relevant keys into a data store to be able to find the data again. It's a sort of index. The data is hierarchical with two levels (master and detail). The data stream is continuous and there is a lot of data (not big data). 10's of TB's.

I released today logstash-gelf 1.6.0. This release contains support for GELF 1.1 spec, Redis Sentinel and the Datenpumpe.

I released today logstash-gelf 1.5.4. This release carries some internal improvements if you plan to extend log appenders and GELF senders.

Weihnachten ist das Fest der Liebe, Freude und des Lichts. Weihnachtsdekorationen rund um die Welt zieren Häuser, Straßen und Bäume.

Der Christmas Spirit Tree hat im Internet der Dinge den Start gemacht und das Online-Unvisersum (Tweets und Blogs) auf einen Weihnachtsbaum gebracht. Im Heckenpfad in Weinheim erwachen ab dem 1. Dezember die Lichter der interaktiven Weihnacht mit einer Show, deren Programm in der Hand des Zuschauers liegt.

Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana are widely used for log management. I wrote in earlier posts about submitting application logs towards logstash. Let’s approach access logs today.

Christmas means joy, love and light to us. Cities, houses and streets are decorated for christmas all around the world.

Christmas has reached the internet, too. The Christmas Spirit Tree was one of the first christmas-themed things of the internet. It showed movement in the social universe of tweets and blogs. And here, in Heckenpfad, Weinheim, Germany, the sparkle of Heckenlights will launch on December 1st. Lights will switch on for admiring and listening.

A choice of decision for a NoSQL data store depends on several factors. It's no longer a hot-or-not decision. The big hype is over, reality comes back now.