SpeedTools is a collection of generic utilities, originally developed by Rijn Buve, Ruud Diterwich, Daan van Dijk and Andreas Wuest for a large commercial project.

The library was created to develop highly scalable web services, using Typesafe Akka, Google Guice and MongoDB, but many of the tools are usable in other contexts as well.

For documentation on what this library offers, have a look at the speedtools/src/site/apt directory, which is the entry point for the site documentation. It contains a list of all modules and APIs.

The versioning scheme of the library starts at 3.0.0, because earlier releases exist were disclosed within TomTom only. From version 3.0.0 TomTom decided to contribute this library under the Apache License 2.0 to the open source community.

There is an additional project speedtools-examples with real-life examples of how to use the SpeedTools library. Check it out at https://github.com/tomtom-international/speedtools-examples.

Happy coding!

Rijn Buve

TomTom International BV

PS. For questions, issues and other remarks, you can contact me via email, or send a tweet to @rijnb.

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It's good practice to set up a personal global .gitignore file on your machine which filters a number of files on your file systems that you do not wish to submit to the Git repository. You can set up your own global ~/.gitignore file by executing: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

In general, add the following file types to ~/.gitignore (each entry should be on a separate line): *.com *.class *.dll *.exe *.o *.so *.log *.sql *.sqlite *.tlog *.epoch *.swp *.hprof *.hprof.index *.releaseBackup *~

If you're using a Mac, filter: .DS_Store* Thumbs.db

If you're using IntelliJ IDEA, filter: *.iml *.iws .idea/

If you're using Eclips, filter: .classpath .project .settings .cache

If you're using NetBeans, filter: nb-configuration.xml *.orig

The local .gitignore file in the Git repository itself to reflect those file only that are produced by executing regular compile, build or release commands, such as: target/ out/

If you encounter any problems with this library, don't hesitate to use the Issues session to file your issues. Normally, one of our developers should be able to comment on them and fix.