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Some more Appium

Meltwater Tech Talks Berlin

To everybody who attended our Meltwater Tech Talk about appium in Berlin yesterday: Thank you. To the rest: Where have you been? :) This post lists further references about appium that were promised during the talk. We were lucky enough to not only have Kuba Siemiątkowski in the house but also Sauce...

Bookmarklets and Atlassian JIRA

Bookmarklets are bringing back hackability to the internet. They help automating little repetitive tasks and making webpages dance. In this post Amer Hamzeh tells us how he fell in love with bookmarklets and why. How did I find out about bookmarklets? My first encounter with bookmarklets was while I was doing a...

The Day the Internets Broke

On Tuesday, a bug in the OpenSSL library was disclosed. It even got a name - Heartbleed - and a logo. And it turned out to be as severe as it can get. OpenSSL is a library widely used on the internet to secure communications. When you access a page via https,...

Debugging, Unicorns, Rails and Timeouts

The goal of this post is to describe a debugging session, and different possible approaches for debugging in general. It also contains some tips and tricks to use with unicorn and Rails to debug request timeouts. I usually enjoy debugging because of the unknown thing to fix, like a pirate finding a...

Berlin Riak Meetup at Meltwater

Meltwater Tech Talks Berlin

On Feburary 27th Meltwater was lucky enough to host the Berlin Riak Meetup in our office at Rotherstraße in Berlin. We were happy to have close to 30 Berlin Riaktors gather for talks by basho and rovio, yes the guys behind Angry Birds! After some beers and plenty of pizza, Richard Cox...

The new dimensions of sentiment

innovation NLP sentiment analysis

The volume of brand mentions online is exploding. With this explosion is an expectation that the “owners” of these brands will not only participate in the conversation, but take in this feedback and make necessary adjustments to products, ads, distribution, customer service, etc. To do this effectively, Meltwater needs to help company...

Developer Spotlight: Salimane Adjao Moustapha (Sam)

Developer Spotlight

Salut! Ni Hao! I am Sam, and I became a member of the Meltwater family as a Senior Software Engineer a few months ago. In this blog post, let’s talk about me for a second. I happened to enter our complex world through lovely Porto-Novo in Benin, West Africa. To date, I...

Extending sorcery with JIRA

open source tutorial sorcery

In this tutorial post our Engineering Trainee Camila from the Berlin office will walk us through the process of adapting an existing open source solution for user authentication to new business requirements. The challenge About 6 months ago, a colleague gave me the idea to add JIRA to sorcery, a library used...