Herbert Mühlburger's Blog

Robotium is an open source testing framework for Android applications. It makes it easy to write complex black-box test cases. Test driven development is a methology where tests are written before the actual application. 1. Write a testcase 2. Watch it failing 3. Write the actual source code in you application which enables the test [...]

In the following video Dmitriy Ryaboy, a Twitter Analytics Engineer and a former Cloudera Intern, explains how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig. Enjoy the video and have a good weekend! Related articles How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) Hadoop There it Was–Hadoop Summit [...]

Today was the kick-off  meeting of NOSQL Summer here in Graz, Austria. A NOSQL Summer is a network of local reading groups, that will decipher & discuss NOSQL-related articles, from late June to early September 2010. Each group sets its own meeting pace (usually once a week or once every two weeks) and select which papers [...]

Pubsubhubbub is “A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub protocol & open source reference implementation“. But what does this mean? The following video explains it very well:

Since few time I am coding an extension to the open-source e-porfolio software Mahara. Therefore I have searched for a video explaining what an e-porfolio stands for and how it can be used: Here is a video that explains it: Few time ago Mahara UK 09, the very first conference covering the e-portfolio system Mahara, [...]