Posts tagged java

Log4Twitter

May 30th

Log4Twitter is very similar to an idea Herbert an me had a couple of years ago, to use a Jabber messaging framework to get distributed logging and alerts from several servers/applications.
It is a Java class that allows you to “log” to Twitter. This would easily allow you to set up an application that sends messages to a private Twitter Account that you can subscribe to. Retrieving those messages should then be possible by IM or even SMS, seems like a perfect set up for me.

Using Log4Twitter is as easy as the following:

Setting Classpath
Add log4twitter-1.0.jar to your application’s classpath.
Note that log4twitter-1.0.jar has to be loaded by the same classloader that will load the logging framework.

Setting Logger
Edit your logging framework’s configuration to enable Log4Twitter.
The fully qualified class name of log4twitter is “log4twitter.FRAMEWORK_NAME.TwitterAppender”.

See the Log4Twitter page for some examples.

Now who’s got the time to code a Linux syslogd replacement or supplement, so I can receive important log messages via Twitter?

FeedMonsun

Feb 28th

Posted by Florian Beer in Development

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I’d like to present to you the latest project I worked on. It is called FeedMonsun and is an online RSS aggregator which Herbert & myself did for programming for distributed systems at our uni.

Read more about it here and feel free to test it out (not available anymore) here.
(beware it’s is far from finished!)

GPS::Tron

Feb 15th

Posted by Florian Beer in Development

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Take a look (and maybe even contribute) at a project of some of my colleagues at uni. It is called GPS::Tron and is an adaption of the well known computer game Tron in a sort of augmented reality context.

GPS::Tron is a Java J2ME Application which uses a cellphone’s GPS transceiver to locate the device. Read more about how it works and what it is on their homepage.

» gps-tron.datenmafia.org