How Firebase Enabled Us to Build a Quiz App in Hours Without a Backend
The Idea Behind This Blog Entry For one of our recent side projects at CIIT Software, we wanted to build a simple quiz app, but without spending days setting up a backend, database, and authentication. Normally, this would mean spinning up a Java/Spring server, writing a REST API, configuring a database, and managing sessions. Instead, […]
Are we developers already lost? – IntelliJ Junie AI Test
AI to fulfill Star Trek dreams? The popular news portals have been buzzing with activity in recent weeks. The reason: JetBrains has been working intensively over the past few months to expand its AI capabilities in various products – including IntelliJ. There, a new AI called "Junie" has been added: a programming agent that is supposed to be able to […]
Angular: Advantages of the revised control flow elements
What is Angular? Developed by Google, the Angular web framework helps developers create single-page web applications. Based on TypeScript, it offers a wide range of features and tools designed to optimize the development flow. Angular enables efficient two-way data binding and simplifies the synchronization of the user interface with the underlying data model. Nglf, NgFor, and NgSwitch […]
The Art of Prompt Engineering: How to Make AI Talk
What is Prompt Engineering? Since the introduction of Large Language Models (LLM), new ways have opened up to solve problems more efficiently and dynamically. To generate the desired results, it is essential to communicate optimally with the AI model about what it needs to solve or answer. This process of designing the optimal instructions and questions is called […]
Project Valhalla – More performance and better memory management for Java
Project Valhalla Java Performance is the focus of a new OpenJDK initiative aimed at making Java faster and more memory-efficient. Java has been one of the most widely used programming languages worldwide for decades and forms the backbone of numerous enterprise applications. Its platform independence, extensive standard libraries, and large developer community make Java a mainstay in software development. However, with […]
How to Integrate Azure OpenAI Batch Processing into Your Java Application
This blog post shows you how to integrate Azure OpenAI batch processing into your Java application. The Spring Framework has come a long way in the last 18 months or so. The new addition of Spring AI has made it relatively straight forward for Java Spring developers to integrate large language models into their applications […]
AI Tech Talk: AI in Custom Software Development
A look back at the CIIT AI TECH TALK – A day full of exciting presentations and innovative solutions from software experts. We at CIIT Software, an experienced provider of customized software solutions with offices in Vienna and Munich, look back on our successful AI TECH TALK 2024! It was a day full of valuable insights and stimulating discussions about […]
Android UsageStatsManager – Tracking App Usage with Ease
In this article, we'll explore the UsageStatsManager class in Android and guide you through building a simple app to track app usage. A sample project is available here: UsageStats Sample Application. Introduced in Android API level 21 (Lollipop), UsageStatsManager provides access to app usage history and statistics on a device. With it, developers can query […]
Spring AI – getting started with large language models in Java Spring
Introduction to Spring AI On July 24th 2023 Dr Mark Pollack made the first commit of the new Spring AI framework. Inspired by Python frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, Dr Pollack's intention was to bring large language models to the Spring development community. While not a direct port of LangChain, Spring AI nevertheless allows […]
@Transactional in Spring – how it works
This article provides an in-depth exploration of Spring Framework's @Transactional annotation, detailing its functionality, implementation, advanced features, and best practices for effective transaction management in Java applications.