Overthinker's Thoughts on software design, artificial intelligence, and socio-technical systems.
Alexander Heusingfeld

Getting started with Clojure

Why Clojure? As I apparently love to use many braces in my blog posts, Clojure is just a natural match! ;) Just kidding. I wanted to dig into Clojure for about a year now, but couldn’t find the time. Clojure to me seems like the most interesting member of the functional programming language family. Getting started The official clojure.org webs... Read more

Speaking at JavaOne 2013

I’m very happy to announce that one of my proposals for JavaOne 2013 has been accepted. This year’s JavaOne takes place from Sep 22 until Sep 27 in San Francisco and will be another great chance catch up with the latest and greatest in java development and of course to meet with many old and new friends. I’ll be giving another talk on “Enterpri... Read more

Postfix and /etc/hosts

The following post is actually a note2self as I stumbled over this problem and wanted to create a reminder for myself and others with similar issues. Scenario “master” is the host machine for multiple virtual machines (in my case they are run and managed via “libvirt”). One of these virtual machines is “mail-host” which holds a postfix mailser... Read more

Collaborator on Sonar IntelliJ Plugin

Lately I was granted the “Collaborator” status on the Sonar Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA at Github (https://github.com/gshakhn/sonar-intellij-plugin/) and I’d like to share with you the benefits of this project. For those who aren’t familiar with the benefits of Sonar’s source code analysis, yet, you should really take a look. Sonar not only perfo... Read more

I'm speaking at Java Forum Stuttgart 2013

I have been invited to talk at Java Forum Stuttgart on July 4th 2013. Java Forum is a single day event fully packed with good talks on various topics. You can see the complete schedule here. If you like to attend the event, you can register here. My talk on “Enterprise Integration Patterns - Best Practices for application integration” will be i... Read more