SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP) Docker Container

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SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP) as plug and play Docker container for development and testing I recently had to add SAML 2.0 authentication to a web application. I had to connect a web application which acted as SAML Service Provider (SP) with an external SAML Identity Provider (IdP). The topic SAML is not trivial and… Read more »

MediaWiki Docker Container

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MediaWiki Docker container with VisualEditor Plugin and Parsoid Service I recently moved my server infrastructure to Docker and had to port a MediaWiki setup with the VisualEditor plugin and its dependant Parsoid service. It was already time consuming to get these three working in a classic setup and i found no existing Docker image(s) that… Read more »

Vortex JavaScript LiveCoding Editor Released

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A taste of livecoding in your Eclipse IDE. When I saw Bret Victors impressive talk Inventing on Principle I started to research the livecoding topic. One of the things I came up with is the Vortex JavaScript Editor. Its a Eclipse editor plugin that holds a WebSocket connection to your browser and evalutates changed code… Read more »

Zerk Game Engine Prototype Released

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Zerk, a 2D game engine prototype written in JavaScript. I wanted to develop a fun project that my wife could be involved in so I decided to create a game that she could draw the graphics for and that I could code. Toward the end of 2012 I started coding the Zerk game engine in… Read more »