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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.

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.

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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

Today we are putting the developer spotlight on Alex, Full Stack Developer for Meltwater’s Mobile development team in Berlin, Germany.

At Meltwater, we are building mobile apps using web technologies. To access platform level APIs, we use the cordova framework, commercially known as PhoneGap. In this post we want to share what we have learned in the last months about the framework and mobile development in general.