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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. Read the story

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!

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...

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.

Developer Spotlight: Alex Rösel

Developer Spotlight

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

Building Mobile Apps with PhoneGap

mobile phonegap cordova hybrid apps

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.

Developer Spotlight: Tristan Hohne

Developer Spotlight

Hello! My name is Tristan Hohne, and I recently joined Meltwater as a User Experience Designer. In this blog post I want to introduce myself and what I do at Meltwater.

Balázs Gődény wins Build Challenge by Thomson Reuters

innovation

Recently Balázs Gődény, Principal Engineer of Meltwater’s Natural Language Processing team in Budapest, won the Build Challenge, which is the 2nd phase of the Thomson Reuters Innovation Challenge. Congratulations Balázs!!!

Berlin Tech Talk: Testing APIs

Berlin Tech Talks

In our speaker exchange, Fabian Moritz from ITaCS GmbH gave us an introduction to Microsoft SharePoint earlier this year. On Friday the 13th - what a great day to test stuff - Sebastian Spier from the Meltwater Berlin office gave a presentation at ITaCS about Testing APIs.